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NEW YORK 
FEBRUARY, 1905. BOTANICAL 
GARDEN. 
The Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 
the Ist February, 1905, at 9-30 P.M. 
His Excettency Lorp Curzon, G.M.S.L., GALLE, Patron; 
in the chair. E 
The following members were present :— 
Dr. A. G. Allan, Mr. N. Annandale, Mr. J. Bathgate, Rev. 
P. O. Bodding, Babu Monmohan Chakravarti, Mr. B. L. Chaudhuri, 
Mr. W. R. Criper, Mr. J. N. Das-Gupta, Mr. W. K. Dods, Mr. 
F. Doxey, His Honour Sir A. H. L. Fraser, Mr. N. l. Hallward, Mr. 
T. H. Holland, Mr. D. Hooper, Dr. W. C. Hossack, Mr. G. W. 
Kichler, Mr. C. W. McMinn, Mr. J. Macfarlane, Mr. EH. D. Macla- 
gan, Kumar Ramessur Maliah, The Hon. Mr. Justice F. H. Pargi- 
ter, Mr. W. Parsons, The Hon. Mr. A. Pedler, Kumar Satindradev 
Rai Mahasai, Dr. P. K. Ray, Mr. H. H. Risley, Captain L. Rogers, 
I.M.S., Dr. EH. D. Ross, Pandit Yogesga Chandra Sastree, Mahama- 
hopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, Mr. H. EH. Stapleton, Pandit 
Satis Chandra Vidyabhushana, Mr. H. Vredenburg, Mr. W. H. 
Arden Wood, Mr. J. Wyness. 
Visitors :—Mr. R. EH. V. Arbuthnot, Miss B. Buckland, Mr. H 
Chandler, Mr. E. C. Cotes, Mr. A. F. Cousins, Rev. J. Dahlmann, §.J., 
Lady Fraser, BabuD evabrata Mukhopadhyaya, Kumar Manindradev 
Rai Mahasai, Mr. 8. C. Sanyal, Mr. G. Stapleton, Rey. A. 
Willifer- Young. 
According to the Rules of the Society, the President ordered 
the voting papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and 
Members of Council for 1905 and appointed Messrs. G. W. Kiichler 
and N. L. Hallward to be scrutineers. 
The President announced that the Trustees of the “ Elliott 
Prize for Scientific Research” had awarded the prize for the 
year 1904 to Babu Sarasi Lal Sarkar, and read the following report 
of the Trustees :— 
Report on the Hlliott Prize for Scientific Research for 1904. 
The Trustees have received Hssays from the following com- 
petitors for the prize :— 
1. On the crystalline properties of a potassium copper fer- 
rocyanide compound. Parts I & II.—By Sarast Lat Sarxar, M.A. 
2. On the experimental determination of the Hlectro-chemical 
equivalent of nickel. (With diagrams.).—By Svurunora Nave ? 
Maritra, M.A. 
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