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1908. ] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. x¢ci 
1. Babu Dines Chandra Sen; Calcut 
2. Mahamahopadhyaya Sudha a ‘Dvivedi, Professor, 
rovernment College, Benar 
3. Revd. Father J. Hoffmann, SJ. “Ranohi. 
pension. University Reader. (Asvutosa Muxknopapyaya,) 
Mahamahopadhyaya Sudhakara Dvivedi, Professor, Govern- 
ment College, Benares, author of various works on Hindu Mathe- 
matics, which show great research. (AsuTosH MUKHOPADHYAYA.) 
The Revd. Father J, Hoffmann, 8.J., well known as an 
authority on the languages and customs of the Mundas, and 
author of a recent paper in the Memoirs of the re on the 
Poetry, Music and Dances of this tribe. (N. ANNANDALE 
The General Secretary gee obituary notices of the late 
Professor L. F. Kielhorn, an Honorary Member, and the Revd. 
Father E. Lafont, 8.J., an As scatiule Member 
Professor Lorenz Franz Kielhorn, Ph.D., LL.D., C.LE., 
was born in Osnabriick in Nene on the 3lst May, 1840. 
He studied Sanskrit under Benfe oem and Weber at the 
German Universities of Gattingen, Bios and. Berlin. ‘There- 
after he went to London and Oxford, wa he assisted Max 
Miller in his edition of the Rigveda. In 1866 he was nomina 
Professor of Sanskrit in the Deccan College at Poona, and he held 
that post till his retirement in 1881. In the following year, 1882, 
acquired by ~ uring his sojourn in Poona, where some of the 
most learned Indian scholars have been working under him as his 
ps foe an edition of the Mahabhashya is “ cag work 
to each other and to Panes” which appe fi Sitar in 
1876, opened the way toa critical understanding of the Maha- 
bhashya, and traced the genesis of Patafijali’s famous commentary 
retirement from the Indian Educational Service, 
Professor Kielhorn joined his friend and Indian colleague, the late 
Profess r, as one of the pioneers in the field of Oe 
Epigraphy and Paleography. His editions of Sa nskrit 
tions, which make up carci one-quarter or perhaps one- third ee 
