48 Nomination of Sonorary Menibers. [Maech, 



Mr- H. Wilson, Asst. Controller, P. W. Dept., proposed by Dr. E. W, 

 Chambers, seconded by Mr. F. W. Peterson. 



Kumar Kanti Chandra Sing, of Paikpara, proposed by Maulavi Abdul 

 Latif Khan, Bahadm-, seconded by Babii Bhuggobutty Charan Mullick. 



T. E. Coxhead, Esq., proposed for re-election by Mr. H. Blochmann, 

 seconded by Captain J. Waterhouse. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw from 

 the Society — 



E. Stewart, Esq., on leaving India, Capt. T. B. Mitchell, Raja Haren- 

 dra KJ.*ishna Bahadur. 



The Council reported that Capt. J. Waterhouse, and Mr. H. Blochmann, 

 had been nominated Trustees of the Indian Musetmi on behalf of the Society, 

 in the place of Col. Hyde, and Dr. S. B. Partridge, who had left the 

 Council. 



The Peesident announced that the Cotxncil recommend Dr. Werner 

 Siemens, and Col. Henry Yule, R,. E., C. B., as suitable persons for election 

 as Honorary Members of the Society. 



The following were the grounds on which this recommendation was 

 made : 



Dr. W. SiEMEE"S, the elder of two brothers both famous and distin- 

 guished as practical physicists, has been from the first the most eminent 

 and most useful of the pioneers of telegraphy. He first successfully intro- 

 duced the covering of telegraph wire with gutta-percha and Indian-rubber. 

 He recommended the first submarine telegraph through the Red Sea, in 

 order to establish direct communication with India from Eui'ope. When 

 this failed and telegraphing became so imperfect that letters often reached 

 their destinations before messages, he promoted with immense zeal and 

 energy the Indo-European line by land, which has since worked, and is work- 

 ing so weU, that we have the London news of the evening before, in our 

 morning papers. He has been more instrumental than any one else in 

 making telegraphic commmiication with Europe perfect, and is acknow- 

 ledged to have been by far the greatest improver and j^erfector of Telegra- 

 phy in general, thus becoming the general promotor of the most beneficial 

 scientific improvement of modem times. 



Colonel Henet Yule, R. E., C. B. has, since the year 184-2, been an occa- 

 sional contributor to the Jonrnal of the Society. He was elected a member in 

 July, 1856, and up to 1861, when he retired from the service, valuable pa- 

 pers on the " Khasi Hills, and their People," " On the niins at Pagan on the 

 IrraAvaddi," and on the " Buddhistic remains in Java," evidenced the inter- 

 est which he took in the laboxu-s of the Society. He accompanied Major, 



