JULY, 1912. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the iit was held on 
Wednesday, the 3rd July, 1912, at 9-15 p.m 
Ma ea HARAPRASAD SHASTRI, C.I.E., Vice- 
President, in the chai 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Mr. A. C. Atkinson, Rev. P. O. Bod- 
ding, Babu er ob rd Mr. B. L. Chaudhuri, Dr. L. 
L. Fermor, Gra vely, Mr. H. G. Graves, Babu 
Amulyacharan agile  eeipabhioeabs, Rev. H. Hosten, 8.J., 
Mr. J. Insch, Babu Padamraj Jain, Mr. W. Jessop, Mr. S. 
Kemp, Mr. W. Kirkpatrick, Mr. G. Stadler, Rai Bahadur Lalit 
Mohan Singha cau ke abe Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, Rev. J. 
Watt, Rev. A. W. Young. 
Visitors :—Mr. E. A. Andrews, Lieut. T. L. Bomford, 
I.M.S., Mr. J. M. Dutt, Babu Satis Chandra Roy Chaudhuri. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Fifty-one presentations were announced. 
The Chairman announced :— 
. That Mr. §. W. Kemp had been appointed to act as 
General Secretary in the place of Mr. G. H. Tipper, gone 
home. 
hat Capt. C. L. Peart had been appointed Officer-in- 
Charge of the Search for Arabic and Persian MSS. 
3. That the Trustees of the Elliott Prize for Scientific 
Research had awarded two prizes for the year 1911—one to 
Babu Jitendra Nath Rakshit, for his essay entitled ‘‘ Prepara- 
tion of Potassium carbonate and Potassium bicarbonate on a 
large scale from Nitre,’’ and another to Babu J atindra Mohan 
Datta, for his essay entitled ‘‘ A few Ketonic dyes.’ 
s both the recipients were present, the Chairman handed 
the Medal, with Rs. 110 in cash, to each of them 
of the year 1911, yl Dr. pa ir) G. A. Grierson, presented 
to the XVIth er yt ene i of Orientalists held at 
