NOV 23 1905 
PROCEEDINGS 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
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JANUARY, 1905. NEW YORK 
BOTANICAL 
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The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the 4th January, 1905, at 9-15 p.m. 
The Hon. Mr. Justice F. H. Pargiter, B.A., I.C.S., President, © 
- in the chair. ¥ 
The following members were present :— 
Mr. J. Bathgate, Major W. J. Bythell, R.E., Babu Manmohan 
Chakravarti, Rai Sarat Chandra Das Bahadur, Mr. F. Doxey, 
Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, Mr. N. lL. Hallward, Dr. W. C. Hossack, Mr. 
H.H. Mann, Dr. M. M. Masoom, The Hon. Mr. Justice Saroda 
Charan Mitra, Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., Pandit Yogesa Chandra 
Sastree, Pandit Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana. 
Visitors :—Mr. H. Chandler, Mr. P. M. Choudry, Rev. Ekai 
Kamaguchi, Mr. B. T. Pell, and Mr. 8. C- Sanial. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Sixty-nine presentations were announced. 
His Honour Sir A. H. L. Fraser, K.C.S.1., Lt.-Col. H. T.S. 
Ramsden, I.A., Mr. J. T. Rankin, Mr. Sukumar Sen, Babu Muck- 
soodan Das, and Mr. F. Turner, were ballotted for and elected 
Ordinary Members. 
It was announced that Babu Roormall Goenka and Major A. H. 
Bingley, 1.A., had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 
The President announced that he had, in accordance with the 
resolution passed at the last Council Meeting, that the objects 
which the Society decided to lend to the Trustees of the Victoria 
Memorial Hall for exhibition should be lent to them for exhibition 
during this cold season as soon as H.E. the Viceroy wished for 
them—handed them over to the Trustees, except the Asoka stone 
which the Trustees excluded. 
The President also announced that he had received six essays 
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