DECEMBER, 1912. 
The Monthly General Meeting of a ciresetd was held on 
Wednesday, the 4th December, 1912, a 
Mana ad ha Sea oer C.I.E., Vice- 
President, in the ch 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. A. 0. Atkinson, 
Dr. Siva Nath Bhattacherjee, Mr, J. C. Brown, Mr. B. L. 
Chaudhuri, Dr. W. A. K Christie, Mr. F. H. Gravely, Hon. Mr. 
Capt. R. B. Seymour Sewell, I.M.S., Mr. T. Southwell, Mr. G. 
Stadler, Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, Rev. A. W. Young. 
Visitors :—Pandit Nanu Ram so paahone Mr. J. McDougall, 
Mr. E. A. Southwell, Mr. M. Ton 
The Minutes of the last foie were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-eight presentations were announced. 
The General Secretary oe that the Most Rev. Dr. 
R. S. Copleston, D.D., and Major R. H. Maddox, I.M.S., had 
expressed a wish to withdraw ae ae Society. 
The General Secretary also reported the death of Mr. W. H. 
Buchan, I.C.S. 
The Chairman announced that Dr. Annandale had returned 
to Calcutta and had taken charge of the duties of the Anthropo- 
logical Secretary from Captain Sewell, I.M.S. 
The Chairman laid on the table the following appeal for 
cnneeibeies to the Busteed Memorial Fund :— 
Karly in the present year there died, at the age of 78, 
Brigade-Surgeon Henry Elmsley Busteed, M.D., C.I.E., for- 
merly in the Medical Service of the Honourable East India 
ompany. 
Those who were in India during the last quarter of the 
nineteenth century, and all who are interested in the stirring 
tale of the rise of British power in that country, must be sen- 
sible of the great debt due to Dr. Busteed for the sagacious 
and indefatigable researches which he conducted into the his- 
.tory of “ Old Calcutta,’’ for the light which he threw upon the 
life and conversation of our coun trymen in that city, and for 
the graphic pictures drawn by his careful pen of one of the 
most momentous periods in the growth of our Indian Empire, 
the days of Warren Hastings and Impey, of Francis and 
