MARCH, 1910 



Wedne 



Monthly General Meeting of the Society was 



The Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, M.A., 

 D.L., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Babu Rakhal Das Banerji, Babu Amrita Lai Bose, Prof. 

 Paul Briihl, Mr. I. H. Burkill, Dr. G. C. Chatterjee, Mr. B. L. 

 Chaudhuri, Mr. J, N. Farquhar, Mr. L. L. Termor, Mr. H. G. 

 Graves, Hon. Mr. Justice H. Holm wood, Mr. D. Hooper, Dr. 

 W. C. Hossack, Mr. R. D. Mehta, C .I.E., Lieut.- Colonel D. C. 

 Phillott, Rev. A. C. Ridsdale, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 

 Shastri, Babu Vanamali Vedantatirtha and Rev. A. W. Young. 



Visitors : — Mr. W. Burns and Mr. F. H. Gravely. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Six presentations were announced. 



The Chairman announced : 



1. That the Elliott Prize for Scientific Research for the 

 year 1909 would not be awarded as the essay received in com- 

 petition was not of sufficient merit to justify the award of the 

 Prize. 



2. That the Council has appointed Lieut.-Colonel D. C. 

 Phillott to officiate as General Secretary during the absence of 



Mr. Tipper. 



The Chairman 



announced the death of Mahamaho- 

 a Tarkalankar, an Honorarv Member 



read 



the obituary notice. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Chandra Kant 

 his last on Wednesday, th 



March 



Members 



the Society. Among the Bengal Pundits he was the only Ori- 

 ental Scholar who had been thus honoured, and the Society 

 had sufficient justification for the same, for his position as a 

 scholar and author of numerous original treatises was quite 



unique . 



