MARCH, 1914 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 4th March, 1914, at 9-15 p.m. 



- Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, CLE., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : 



Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Dr. P. J. Briihl, 

 Mr. G. R. Clarke, Mr. 0. C. Ganguly, Mr. F. H. Gravely, Rev. 

 H. Hosten, S.J., Dr. 0. Strauss, Rev. J. Watt. 



Visitor: — Miss M. Tonnet. 



The Minutes of the January Meeting and the Annual 

 Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Forty-nine presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that Mr. J. R. R. Wilson, 

 Major D. Munro, I. M.S., and Mr. D. J. Macpherson, I.C.S., 

 have expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 



The General Secretary also reported the death of Dr. Albert 

 Gunther and Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, Honorary Fellows, 

 and Pandit Visnuprasad Rajbhandarl, an Associate Member 

 of the Society. 



Subba Visnuprasad Rajbhandarl was descended from a 

 long line of hereditary Prime Ministers of the Newar Rajas of 

 Nepal. His grandfather did his best to support the cause of 

 the Newar Rajas against the Gurkha invaders. Unsuccessful 

 in his attempt he went to voluntary exile with the Raja 

 at Benares and died on the bank of the Gandak where it 

 is said that he was turned into a hillock. Visnuprasad's 

 father was a class friend of Jung Bahadur and was the Gover- 

 nor of Western Nepal. When Jung made himself master of 

 Nepal by the events of 1846, Visnuprasad's father retired 

 from State Service and trained his son for literary profes- 

 sion. Jung Bahadur made him Librarian of the Durbar 

 Library — a post which eminently fitted him. Visnuprasad 

 was an ardent student of Tantra and thorough believer in 

 its doctrines. He has made a large collection of Tantric works 

 and Tantric charts and pictures which has made that Library 

 a unique source of information on Tantric subjects. His 

 death is mourned by a large circle of friends and admirers both 

 among the Newars and Gurkhas of Nepal. 



