
1908. ] Prococdings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. xiii 
of oi for 19 years, and was the senior Vice-President of that 
Association. 
influence of Father Lafont’s genial Deceeinttiy a 
intellect will be long remembered by those with who: 
brought in contact, while the loss of his wide ayrapaitiae sna 
interest in every movement for the public good will be widely felt 
by the community in the midst of whom he laboured forso long a 
period. (T.H. D. La Tovcne. 
The following six gentlemen were ballotted for as Ordinary 
Members :— 
Mr. O. M. Hutchinson, B.A., Scientific Officer to the Tea 
Association, Indian Museum, Calcutta, proposed by,Mr. D. aR 
seconded by Mr. I, H. Burkill; Mr. M. Heron, B 
Geological by Mee of India, ire by Mr. 'T. H. D. La Touche, 
seconded b r.L. L. Fermor; Mr. K. A. K. Hallowes, B.A., 
A.R.S.M. Fos. proposed by Mr. T. H. ce La Touche, seconded b 
Mr. L. L. "Ferme : Mr. H. Cecil Jones, A.R.S.M., ARCS., F.GS., 
proposed by Mr. T. H. D. La Touche, seconded by Mr. L. L. Fer- 
Surgeon Rai Hiralal Basu, Bahadur, Senior Demonstrator of Ana- 
tomy, Medical College, Calcutta, proposed by ee L. Rogers, 
I.M.S., seconded by Captain M. Mackelvie, I.M.S 
— Or 
Dr. N, Annandale exhibited, on behalf of Mr. H. H. Hagen 
a series of photographs of Afghan antiquities, 
The pillar stands on the’summit of the Kotal-i-minar, at 
Be ia about seven miles to the south-east of 
Chakri Minér. Kabul, on the short-cut over the hills to 
Khurd Kabul. 
It is figured by Fergusson in his “ Indian and Eastern Archi- 
tecture” (p. 56). The figure is said to be from a drawing by 
Masson published in Wilson’s Ariana Antiqua, but does not 
correspond with the rai reproduced in the copy that I saw in 
the Azintic Society’s li 
Bele otographs were taken in December, 1907, by Mr. 
Donovan, “ the Oriental T Telephone and Electric Company, Peal 
trical engineer to the Amir of Afghanistan. 
