February, 1916.] Annual Report. 



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No members compounded for their subscriptions during 



this year. 



Fellows of the Society. 



At the Annual Meeting held on the 3rd February, 1915 

 Major E. W. D. Grieg, CLE., M.B., I.M.S. ; Mr. G. H. Tipper! 

 M.A., F.G.S. ; Mr. D. B. Spooner, Ph.D., and Mr. H. H. Haines, 

 F C.H., F.L.S., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



There were 31 Fellows on the list at the end of 1915. 



Office-bearers. 



Dr. E. P. Harrison continued Physical Science Secretary 

 until September, when he resigned owing to his transfer to 

 Bombay on military duty and Dr. P. J. Briihl was appointed 

 in his place. In July Dr. N. Annandale resigned his office of 

 Anthropological Secretary, as he was going on leave for 6 

 months out of India, and Mr. J. Coggin Brown took charge of 

 his duties. There have been no other changes among the 

 officers of the Society. Mr. F. H. Gravely held the post of the 

 General Secretary and edited the Proceedings. Mr. R. D. Mehta, 

 C.I.E., remained Treasurer. Mr. S. W. Kemp was Honorary 

 Librarian throughout the year. Dr. W. C. Hossack continued 

 to be the Medical Secretary. Dr. Briihl was Biological Secre- 

 tary and edited the Biological portion of the Journal. Dr. A. 

 Suhrawardy remained Philological Secretary, edited the Arabic 

 and Persian part of the Philological Section of the Journal, 

 and was in charge of the Arabic and Persian portions of the 

 Bibliotheca Indica ; he was also officer-in-charge of the Arabic 

 and Persian search. Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabusana carried 

 on the duties of the Joint Philological Secretary and edited 

 the Sanskrit part of theiPhilological portion of the Journal. 

 He was also in charge of the Sanskrit portion of the Biblio- 

 theca Indica, while Mahamahopadhaya Haraprasad Shastri 

 continued officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Information and 

 carried on the work of collecting and cataloguing Sanskrit 

 Manuscripts. The Coin Cabinet was in cha 

 Wright, and either he or Mr. C. J. Brown 

 Treasure Trove Coins sent to the Society. 



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Office. 



Mr. J. H. Elliott has continued as Assistant Secretary 

 throughout the year, with the exception of three months from 

 June to August, when he was granted privilege leave and Babu 

 Balai Lai Dutt, B.A., the First Library Assistant, acted for him. 



Maulavi Asaduz Zaman Khan, the Society's Maulavi, was 

 granted sick leave for three months from 17th May to 16th 

 August, and Maulavi Shah Moinuddin Ahmed acted for him. 



There have been no other changes in the establishment. 



