General Meeting. [February, 1905. 
Other Members of Council, 
The Hon, Mr. Justice P. Aap riche Sa BA, LCR. 
, 8, Esq. 
The Hon. Mr. A. E LC.S 
Lt.-Col. x H. Tull Wah, LMS. 
R. O. Lees, Es 
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HH. Hayden, Esq., B.A., ke 
E. Thornton, Esq., F.R.1.B 
The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary General 
Meeting. 
His Bxcennency Lorp Curzon, G.M.S.I., G.M.LE., Patan: 
in the chair 
The smilie of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-six presentations were announced. — 
Mr. J. De Grey Downing and Captai rp age le ge 
were eae for and elected Ordinary Sambar 
as announced that Mr. B. C. Sen and Thai Lakshisankar 
Misra Bahadur had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 
The President announced that Mr. P. R. Bramley, Babu Gopal 
Chandra Chatterjee and Mr. Mahammad Rafiq elected members of 
the Society on 3rd February, 1st June and 6th July 1904, respectively, 
not having paid their entrance fees, their election have become n 
and void under Rule 9, and that the election of Rev. 8. Endle has 
been cancelled at his own request. 
The General Secretary exhibited es photographs of the 
stone image of Buddha forwarded by the Commissioner of the 
Chittagong Division, and read the following note on it prepared 
by Pandit Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana :—- 
is image represents Buddha heer on Padmasana or 
thameat which is defined as a particular posture in gee 
meditation in which the devotee sits mith a thighs oneal with 
one hand resting on the left thigh, the other held up with the 
thumb bent towards the heart, and the eyes directed towards the 
tip of the nose 
Arakanese Buddha which differs a little from the Buddhas of 
Burma proper. The image must have been prepared about the 
year 1560 A.D., when Chittagong was completely a by the 
Arakanese and was made a province B grees Chittagong 
a province of Arakan up to 1666 3 AD, when it was 
