Ixxxvi Proceedings of the 
The General Secretary reported that Prof. degnnnth Sirear 
had expressed a desire to withdraw from the Socie 
The sigue ee was balloted for and elected as 
an oe 
Bhagwan oe Batta, ogactmbini and Analytical Chemist. 
res Street, Nabha Sta : proposed by Dr. S. W. Kemp, 
seconded by Mr. A. H. Harley 
The General Secretary read the following address presented 
by the Society’s delegates to the Académie Royale de Belgique 
on the first day of their 150th Anniversary Celebrations and a 
report of the proceedings of the celebrations by Dr. EK. H. 
Pascoe 
As the representatives of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, we 
ave been entrusted with the honour of conveying to the 
President and Members of the Académie Royale de Belgique 
Sas respectful congratulations of the senior learned Society in 
ia. 
Founded also during the latter part of the XVIII[th 
century, the Asiatic Soci ety has had the benefit of the publica- 
tions of the distinguished Academy, particularly those embody - 
ing the researches in Oriental languages and philosophy by 
Felix Neve, Mgr. Lamy and Mgr. de Harley, the ceclogical 
work of Edouard — on the Gondwana formations of the 
Congo region and of Em. Laurent and Th. Durand and others 
on the natural sta of the reat belt of Africa 
he Académie Royale has maintained an unbroken record 
of work Shiceshcut all the great political and dynastic 
changes which have passed over Belgium, and the Asiatic 
Society now joins its correspondents in all the Allied countries 
“ expressing the hope that the Académie has at last com- 
enced an era of long-continued tranquillity which will enable 
it 8 maintain undisturbed the di Kevan pests — which it 
has attained in the world of science and lett 
( as iz Holland. 
(Sd.) < Leonard Rogers. 
CB. H. Pasese. 
eedings in connection with the 150th Anniversary 
of the Académie Royale de Belgique were spread over two days, 
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 23rd and 24th of May, 1922. At 
2 o’clock on the 23rd there was a “ seance preliminaire” at 
which delegates were welcomed by the President and at which 
addresses of congratulation were presented to the Academy. 
The above brief oddvage which had been drawn up by Sir Thomas 
Holland, was handed in to the President with a few explan- 
atory wo 
At 4-30 of the same day we were entertained to tea by the 

