JANUARY, 1912. 
The Adjourned Monthly General Meeting of the Society was 
held on Wednesday, the 10th January, 1912, at 9-15 p.m. 
MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HaRaPRASAD Sasrri, C.1.E., M.A., 
Vice-President, in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Prof. Nilmani 
Chakravarti, Mr. F. H. Gravely, Mr. D. Hooper, Rev. H. 
Hosten, 8.J., Mr. G. R. Kaye, Mr. W Kirkpatrick, Dr. J. E. 
Panioty , Lieut.-Col. D. C. Phillott, Capt. R. B. Seymour Sewell, 
I.MS., Mr. G. H. Tipper. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Two hundred and fifty-two presentations were announced. 
The General Secretary announced that Mr. J. N. Farquhar 
had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 
The General Secretary also announced the death of Sir 
Joseph D. Hooker, an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 
Read the following obituary notice of the death of Sir 
Joseph D. Hooker, contributed by Major A. T. Gage, I.M.S. :-— 
Sim Josepx Datton Hooker, O.M., G.O.S.1., F.RS. 
midnight on Sunday, the 10th December 1911, our Society has 
lost its most venerable an ingui 
member, and it is but fitting that the Society add its tribute 
to the multitudinous appreciations that are appearing all over 
the globe of the life and work of this very illustrious man of 
science. Hooker’s wonderful career has been the theme in 
other places of other writers more worthily qualified to des- 
cribe it than the contributor of this note, so that the latter 
must here be content to present but the briefest outline of 
ts. . 
Joseph Dalton Hooker, the second son of William (after- 
i n at Hales- 
