eee Viii Presidential Address, (February, 1911. 
esting matter might be made more appetizing and available to 
its readers 
India and Burma, to give up many of their ancient customs 
and beliefs, and to adopt those of their more enlightened’ 
neighbours. No doubt masses of information on these points 
are to be found in the periodical reports issued by the Census 
Commission ; but how few people, immersed as they are in their 
own affairs, take the trouble to wade through these reports, in 
order to extract the few items that may appeal to them. The 
majority, I imagine, content themselves with the reviews fur- 
nished by the newspapers, in which it is hardly possible that 
more than the merest allusion should be made to the most 
striking points contained in the original documents. Perhaps 
it would be too much to expect our divisional Secretaries, who 
are all busily employed on their own branches of study, to 
make these extracts themselves; but there seems to be no 
reason why Committees of two or three members each should 
not be appointed, charged with the duty of keeping the 
members of the Society informed of the progress that is being 
m 
providing a public monument to perpetuate the memory of our 
late Sovereign was mooted, and the most suitable form that 
tropics can be most conveniently studied, emanated from the 
Society ; and we are glad to find that, although this proposal 
has not been accepted in its concerete form, yet the idea of 
devoting some portion of the funds raised to the alleviation 
human suffering, an object which was ever present in 
thoughts of King Edward VII, has taken root in the public 
mind, and has been accepted by the Committee formed to 
__A question of pressing importance, in which the Society 
might exercise a valuable influence on public opinion, is that 
of the form and method of Education that would be most 
suitable under the conditions prevailing in India. There is 20 — 
doubt that serious changes are necessary in the present sys 
