JULY, ror. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the ee was held on 
Wednesday, the 5th July, 1911, at 9-15 p 
D. Hooprr, Esq., F.C.S., F.A.S.B., in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. A. C. Atkin- 
son, Mr. P. Brown, Mr. B. De, Dr. L. L. by Mr. H. 
Gravely, Mr. i A K. Hallowes, Rev. H. H n, 8. J., 
ba. 
Insch, Mr. 8. W. Kemp, Mr. W. ears De, ‘Satis ane 
Vidyabhusana. 
Visitors : mae Fermor, Captain R. B. Seymour Sewell, 
I.M.S., and other 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Twenty presentations were announced :— 
The General Secretary reported the death of Acharya 
Satyavrata Sasaieestae an Honorary Member of the Society. 
r. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana read the following 
obituary notice :— 
pe Satya Vrata Samewen (A.D. 1846—1911). 
ndit Satyavrata Samasrami was born in Patna on the 
28th May. 1846. His father Babu Ramdas Chatterji held 
several responsible posts under the British Government in 
Monghyr and Patna, and had considerable landed property. 
To help the introduction of Vedic lea arning in Bengal, he 
removed his family to Benares and placed his son, eight -years 
old, under the instruction of Gauda Svami, the head of the 
Sarasvati Matha, and of Pandit Nandaram Trivedi. Satya- 
vrata completed ‘his studies in 1866 and received the title of 
‘*Samasrami’’, or ‘‘ scholar of the Sama Veda’’, from the 
Maharaja of Bundi with the consent of ~~ ateig sistiog! 
Pandits of his court 
Then the young Vedic scholar with about a hundred pupils 
spent the following two. years in travel, visiting various holy 
places of Northern India, among which may be mentioned 
Ayodhya, Kanauj, Kampilla, Jeypur, Naimisharanya, Hurd- 
‘war, Guzrat, and Kas 
"Returning to. ROG in. 1868, he married ‘the grand- 
daughter of. Pandit Brajanath Vidyaratna, ‘the leading Smarta 
of Navadvipa. In 1870, he commenced to edit a Journal under 
the. name-of Pratna: Kamra Nandini- for the publication of 
