DECEMBER, to11. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the 6th December, 1911, at 9-15 p.m. 
MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HARAPRASAD SHAstTRI, ©.1.E., M.A., 
in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. H. 8. Bion, 
Prof. Nilmani Chakravarti, Mr. D. Hooper, Rev. H. Hosten, 
8.J., Mr. G. R. Kaye, Mr. W. Kirkpatrick, Lt.-Col. D. C. Phil- 
lott, Dr. P. C. Ray, Captain R. B. Seymour Sewell, I.M.S., Dr. 
Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, Dr. J. Ph. Vogel. 
Visitors :—-Rev. A. Ameye, 8.J., Babu Rasick Lal Datta, 
Babu Tincoury De, Babu Jatindranath Rakshit, Babu Hemen- 
drakumar Sen, Mr. A. C. Tunstalb, Rev. M. Vermeire, 8.J., 
and others. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Two hundred and thirty-five presentations were announced. 
The General Secretary reported that Capt. M. Mackelvie, 
I.M.S., and Major W. Coldstream, R.E., have expressed a 
wish to withdraw from the Society. 
Tbe General Secretary also reported the death of Mr. W. 
Irvine, an Honorary Fellow of the Society ; and Mr. A. C, Sen, 
an Ordinary Member of the Society. 
Read the following obituary notice of the death of Mr. W. 
Irvine :— 
_ Mr. William Irvine, an Honorary Fellow of the Society, 
was born July 5, 1840, and died November 7, 1911. Edu- 
cated at St. Anne’s School, Brixton, and King’s College, Lon- 
don, he passed the Indian Civil Service examination in 1862. 
In 1863 he arrived in India and was posted to what was then 
called the North-West Provinces. He became a member of the 
Society in 1866. Being on the theatre of the decline and fall 
of the Mogul Empire, his attention was early directed to the 
history of that interesting epoch, and his first paper in the 
1857). He also made a valuable collection of Persian and 
Urdu manuscripts dealing with the period after the death of 
Aurangzeb. He retired from the service in 1888. After his 
retirement he continued to show his interest in the Society by 
contributing articles to the Journal. In 1894 he began his 
