1917.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of 



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APRIL, 1917. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 4th April, 1917, at 9-15 p.m. 



H. Hayden, Esq., C.I.E., D.Sc, B.A. ; B.A.I., F.G.S., 

 F.A.S.B.. F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Dr. F. H. Gravely, Mr. H. G. Graves, Mr. C. W. Gurnei 

 Dr. W. C. Hossack, Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, Mr. E. 



Vredenburg. 



Visitors : — Babu Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharjya, Dr. A. 



Meerwarth. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and con tinned. 

 Thirteen presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that Dewan Bahadur 

 Hiralal Basu and Dr. Birendra Nath Ghose had expressed a 

 desire to withdraw from the Society. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for as Ordinary 

 Members : — 



Mr. P. H. Awati, M.A., Medical Entomologist, Central 

 Research Institute, Kasauli, proposed by Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri, 

 seconded by Babu Gopal Das Chowdhuri ; Mr. Abdul Mafkl. 

 B.A., M.R.A.S., Gola Gunj, Lucknow, proposed by Syed 

 Naseer Hosien Khan Khayal, seconded by Aga Muhammad 

 Kazim Shirazi ; Dr. Rasik Lai Datta, D.Sc.. Lecturer in Chemis- 

 tr y, Presidency College, Calcutta, 78, Manicktola Street, Cal- 

 cutta, proposed by The Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh Mukho- 

 Padhyaya, Kt., seconded by Dr. P. C. Ray, CLE. 



The following gentleman was proposed as an Honorary 

 Fellow : — 



Professor Herbert A. Giles, LL.D. : Prof, of Chinese in 

 toe University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. 

 u Dr. Herbert Allen Giles, Honorary LL.D. (Aberdeen) 1897. 

 Honorary M. A. (Cantab) 1898, succeeded the late Sir Thomas 

 Wade as Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge 

 ? 189 7. He stands in the foremost rank of scholars who have 

 footed themselves to the investigation of Chinese History -and 

 ^terature. His Chinese-English Dictionary was P™^ 1 " 

 ^2,and.a second edition was issued in 1912. His Chinese 

 ^graphical Dictionary obtained the Prix St. Julien of he 

 Academfe Francaise in 1897. In 1902, he was nominated *e 

 fir *t lecturer oA the Dean Lung Foundation m the Columbia 



