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Mr. James Hector Barnes, B.Sc.; Mr. John Gerald Gardner 
Gardner-Brown, M.A.; Dr. Ww. C. Hossack, M.D.; Mr. James 
Henry Little ; Mr. Charles Russell, M.A. ; Raja Ooday Pratab 
Singh, C.S.I.; and Mr. Framjee Jamesjee Thanawala. 
A Sub- Ostintiben was appointed to revise Rule 41 for the 
removal of members, and the Society accepted their recom- 
mendations, adding after the words “after being admonished 
by the President, ” the words “or if for any other reason it 
shall appear to the Council that the name of a member should 
not remain on the ea ” and deleting the words “for miscon- 
duct” from the ma 
o members aaipinnded for their subscriptions during 
this Ye 
Among the Special Honorary Centenary Members, ere 
ar ea one death, viz. that of Dr. Ernst Haeckel. The 
er is now 2. 
ck ; a 
Professor Theodor Noeldeke, Professor Ignaz Goldziher, Dr. H. 
Oldenberg and Dr. A. Engler have been struck off under Rule 
41. Dr. Herbert A. Giles has been elected to fill one of the 
vacancies 
The total number of Honorary Fellows is now 22. 
Among the Associate Members Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra 
Das, C.1.E., has died ; and the names of Rai Bahadur Balkrishna 
Atmaram Gupte and Dr. Herbert A. Giles have been removed, 
the former at his own request, and the latter on his having 
been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society. The number 
of Associate Members is n 
The Council tea the rules for the appointment of Asso- 
ciate Moises, and proposed to the Society the natin addi- 
tion to Rule 2 (c) “They shall be elected for a term of 5 years, 
but shall be eligible for re-election.”” This was adopted. 
Fellows of the Society. 
At the annual meeting held on the 7th February, 1917, 
G. C. Sim gona erie D.Sce., F.R.S., Lieut.-Col. W. D. Su ther- 
land, LM.S., and F. H. Gravely, Esq., D. Se., were elected Fel- 
lows of the Society. 
. G. T. Walker, F.R.S., resigning his Ordinary Mem- 
bership of the Society, he ceased to be a Fellow under the So- 
ciety’s Rule 2A. 
On the recommendation of the Fellows resident in Calcutta, 
‘Certain modifications in the regulations regarding the election 
of ras were accepted by the Council of the Society. 
Rule 2A, the following sentence was added :— “* Fellows 
shal] he entitled to add to their names the initials F.A.9.B.” 
There were 35 Fellows on the list at the sea of 1917. 
