1876.] Annual Beport. 19 



profound knowledge o£ the MSS. sources of Indian liistory and tlie treasures 

 of Persian poetry. 



Mr. Beal for several years forwarded to the Society readings of Mu- 

 hammadan inscriptions from the neighbourhood of i^grah, which were pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Society for 1873, 1874, and 1875, and also 

 allowed the Society to take copies of several rare and unique historical MSS. 

 He had just been proposed for election as an Associate Member, when he 

 died at Agrah, on 9th June, 1875, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. 



Though not members of the Society at the time of their death, the 

 names of Col. S. E,. Tickell, and Capt. T. Hutton, both of whom were for- 

 merly valued contributors to the Society's Journal, may be recorded among 

 those of others who have passed away diiring the year. Col. Tickell was 

 elected in November 1859, and remained a member of the Society till 

 January 1865. During this period he contributed several valuable papers, 

 chiefly on Indian ornithology and ethnology, among which may be men- 

 tioned " List of Birds collected in the jungles of Borabhum and Dhol- 

 bum ;" — "on the Oology of India, a deserijjtion of the Eggs also Nests of 

 several Birds of the plains of India ;" — "Notes on the Heiima or Shendoos, 

 a tribe inhabiting the hills north of Ai-acan." 



Capt. Hutton appears never to have been a member of the Society, 

 but the general Index to the early volumes of the Journal shows a list 

 of between twenty and thirty papers from his pen on various subjects 

 connected with Natural History and Geology. 



Indian Museum. 



The Council continue to carry out the provisions of Act XVII, of 1866 

 and transfer all Natural History and Archteological specimens, received by 

 them, to the Trustees of the Indian Museum. 



The Trustees on the part of the Society were : — 



Col. H. Hyde, E. E., Col. J. E. Gastrell, Dr. S. B. Partridge, and Dr. 

 T. E Lewis. 



Finance. 



Notwithstanding the decrease in the number of paying members, the 

 Council are happy to report, that the Financial position of the Society con- 

 tinues in a satisfactory state. 



The actual total receipts by subscriptions from members during the 

 year under review amounts to Es. 9,760, exceeding the total receipts of the 

 previous year, which were Es. 8,729, by Es. 1,031. 



The amount due from members on account of arrears of subscriptions 

 has been reduced this year by Es. 448, leaving a balance of Es. 6,561 still 

 to be collected, against Es. 7,009 in arrears in 1874. 



The Council take this opportunity of again earnestly urging upon mem- 



