February, 1916.] Annual Report. 



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Meetings 



The Society's General Meetings have been held regularly 

 every month with the exception of October, 1915. 



Lecture. 



Dr. H. H. Hayden, CLE., F.R.S., F.A.S.B., delivered a 

 lecture on the Hindukush and the Russian Pamirs in the Society's 

 rooms on 17th December, 1915. This was the only lecture 

 delivered during the year. 



Agencies. 



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in Europe, and Mr. Otto Harrassowitz has ceased to act as 



Agent. 



Since the commencement of the war, no copies of the 



4 ' Bibliotheca Indica ' ' 



Memoirs 



Quaritch 



is intended that all the numbers issued since the last despatch 

 shall be sent during 1916. 



The two cases containing the Society's publications, sent to 

 Mr. Otto Harrassowitz on the 9th July 1914 per SS. " Katten- 

 turm," have not yet been recovered. 



Barclay Memorial Medal. 



On the recommendation of the Barclay Memorial Medal 

 Special Committee, the Council awarded the Medal for 1915 to 

 Mr. J. S. Gamble, CLE., M.A., F.R.S., late of the Indian 

 Forest Department, in recognition of his biological researches. 



Elliott Prize for Scientific Research. 



Sixteen essays were received in competition for the Elliott 

 Prize for Scientific Research during 1914, viz. two on Mathe- 

 matics and fourteen on Chemical subjects. As the subject 

 selected for the year was Mathematics only the two mathematical 

 essays were referred to an expert for examination and report. 

 The Trustees decided that neither of the two essays was of suffi- 

 cient merit to deserve a prize. Moreover, they were ineligible 

 in the terms of the notification which required that the essays 

 should have been composed and published during the year. 



No prize having been awarded for Mathematics for 1914, 

 the prize available for that subject is offered for the year 1915, 

 in addition to one offered for Natural Science. This notifica- 

 tion was published in the Calcutta Gazette of the 15th De- 

 cember, 1915. In view of the delay in the publication of the 

 notification, the Trustees have decided that the essays for 1915 

 shall be received up to the end of March, 1916. 



At the request of the Hon. Mr. K. C. De. ? the Council 



