cxxx Procs. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1916. 



achieved enduring fame but still more in the capacity of anthro- 

 pologist and student of the marine mammals— in particular 

 of the whales, of which he accumulated a unique collection in the 

 Anatomical Museum of his University. There also is preserved 

 his series of human crania, a collection to which the gratitude 

 of old students was continually adding specimens from all parts 



of the world. 



Turner's most important contribution to original research 



was perhaps his account of the human skulls and other bones 

 obtained in the course of the ' Challenger ' Expedition. In this 

 memoir, which was published in the Scientific Reports of the 

 expedition in 1884, he evolved a method of investigation that 

 forms the basis of most modern work. In the many papers 

 he subsequently wrote on the same subject he departed in no 

 important respect from the system there laid down. Among 

 his later papers those on the craniology of the peoples of the 

 Indian Empire were among the most valuable. He sum- 

 marized his investigations into the anatomy of the whales and 



\alogue of the Marine Mammals in the 

 the University of Edinburgh. Long alter 



seals in 



Anatomical Museum of 



he ceased to be Professor of Anatomy he retained a working- 

 room iu the Anatomical Department of the University and 

 continued not only to carry on his own original work, which 

 was only terminated by his death, but to encourage the work 

 of others. His range of subjects was perhaps broader in his 

 old age than at any other period, and after he became Prin- 

 cipal he did not hesitate to write on groups so far removed 

 from those to which he had devoted his main scientific energies 

 as the parasitic Copepoda and the Hexactinallid sponges. In 

 recent years his papers, with few exceptions, were published in 

 the Transactions or the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, in which his influence was almost as strong as it 

 was in the University. 



The President announced that Dr. N. Annandale had been 

 appointed Anthropological Secretary in the place of Mr. J. 

 Coggin Brown, resigned. 



The General Secretary read the names of the following 

 gentlemen who were appointed to serve on the various com- 

 mittees during 1916 : 



Finance Committee .—Dr. N. Annandale, The Hon. Justice 

 Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt., Mahamahopadhyaya Hara- 

 prasad Shastri , CLE. , Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidya- 

 bhusana, Hon. Librarian (Ex-officio). 



Library Committee. — The Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh Mukho- 

 padhyaya, Kt., Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, CLE.. 

 J. A. Chapman, Esq., Dr. H. H. Hayden, Father H. Hosten, 

 Major D. McCay, ex-officio (Library Regulation 22) Anthropo- 



