JULY, 1916. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 5th July, 1916, at 9-15 p.m. 



Lieut.-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, Kt., C.I.K.. M.D., 



B.S., F.R.C.P., F.RjC.8., F.A.S.B., F.R.8., I.M.S., President, 

 in the cKair. 



The following members were present : — 



Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Babu Nilmani 

 Chakravarti, Dr. F. H. Gravely, Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.I.E., 

 Dr. W. C. Hossack, Rev. H. Hosten, S.J., Rev. R. Oka, Maha- 

 mahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, CLE.. Dr Satis Chandra 

 Vidyabhusana. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Twenty-four presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that Babu Ramakanta 

 Bhattacharyya had expressed a desire to withdraw from the 

 Society. 



The General Secretary also reported the death of Mr. Ed- 

 ward Thornton. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for as Ordinary 

 Members : — 



Mr. J. MacKenna, J.C.S., Agricultural Adviser to the Gov- 



ernment of India, Pusa, Behar, proposed by Dr. N. Annandale, 

 seconded by Mr. S. W. Kemp; Colonel H. T. Pease, CLE.. 

 M.R.C.V.S., Principal, Punjab Veterinary College, Lahore, pro- 

 posed by Dr. N. Annandale, seconded by Mr. S. W. Kemp ; 

 Mr. W. S. Street. Merchant's Assistant, Messrs. Shaw Wallace 

 & Co., proposed by Mr. R. D. Mehta, CLE., seconded by Dr. 

 F. H. Gravely; Babu Ganapati Sarkar, Zemindar, 69 ; Belia- 

 ghata Main Road, Calcutta, proposed by Mahamahopadhyaya 

 Haraprasad Shastri, seconded by Babu Nilmani Chakravarti ; 

 Syed Naseer Hosein Khankhayab, Zemindar and Landholder, 

 78, Prinsep Street, Calcutta, proposed by Maulavi Aga Muham- 

 mad Kazim Shirazi, seconded by Mr. O. F. Jenkins ; Mr. Z. R. 

 Zahid Suhrawardy, M.A., B.L., Barrister-at-Law, 3, Wellesley 

 1st Lane, Calcutta, proposed by the Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh 

 Mukerjee, Kt., seconded bv Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 

 Shastri, CLE. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri exhibited a MS. 

 of Buddhist Tantric Sanskrit of the tenth century in which 

 Bombay is mentioned. 



The President announced that there would be no meeting 

 of the Medical Section duririg the month. 



