1917.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ccxxv 



Visitors ;— Capt. H. Berkeley, LA,, Mr. C. Cleghorn, Miss 0. 

 Gleghorn. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Twenty-one presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that Dr. Phillip Lechman 

 Stallard, an Ordinary Member, and Rai Bahadur B. A. Gupte, 

 an Associate Member, had expressed a desire to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



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The General Secretary also reported that Mr. J. H. Little, 

 an Ordinary Member, and Dr. Ernst Haeckel, a Special Honor- 

 ary Centenary Member, were dead. 



The Chairman announced that the following two members, 

 being largely in arrears of subscriptions, had been declared 

 defaulters, and that their names would be posted up in accord- 

 ance with Rule 38 : 



The Hon. A. K. Ghuznavi, Mymensingh. 

 S.P. V. Ranganathaswamy, Aryavaraguru. Arshya Library, 

 Vizagapatam. 



The proposed additions and alterations to the Society's 

 Rules 2A, 2(c) and 41, of which intimation had already been 

 given by circular to all members under Rule 65, were brought 

 up for final disposal. 



The votes of the members were laid on the table and the 

 Chairman requested any members who had jiot expressed their 

 opinions to take the present opportunity of filling in voting 

 papers. 



The Chairman appointed Mr. E. Vredenburg and Dr. K. S. 

 Ray to be scrutineers. 



The scrutineers reported as follows : 

 For amendment of Rules 2 A and 2 (c) 



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For amendment of Rule 41 « . " **a 



Against amendment of Rule 41 . . . . o 



Carried. 



The Chairman announced that in accordance with Rule 41 

 the Council had decided to propose to the Society the removal 

 of the following enemv aliens from the member list. The pro- 

 position would be submitted to ballot at the next meeting of 



the Societv. 



Ordinary Members. 



1. Dr. Herman Finck. M.D.. Ahmednagar. 



2. Graf Karl L.Luxburg t S.America. 



3. Joseph Henry Charles Schulten. fi**., Fh.D.. Europe. 



4. Dr. 0. Strauss, Ahmednagar. 



