18 Annual Beport. [Feb. 



The table below shows the fltictuation of members diiring the last ten 

 years. 



Year. 



Paying. 



Absent. 



Total. 



1866, 



1867, 



1868, 



1869, 



1870, 



293 

 307 

 294 

 304 

 266 

 286 

 279 

 305 

 312 

 295 



Resident. 



124 

 154 

 159 

 162 

 134 

 112 

 105 

 116 

 127 

 113 



Non-Resident. 



169 



153 



135 



142 



132 



174 

 172 + 2 L. M. 

 186 + 3L.M. 

 184 + 3 L. M. 

 179 + 3 L. M. 



Non- 

 Paying. 



94 



109 



133 



138 



148 



160 



159 



53 



32 



50 



387 

 416 

 427 



442 

 414 



1871, 



1872, 



1873, 



446 

 438 



358 



1874, 



346 



1875, 



345 









Two Honorary Members were elected dviring the year. viz. : Prof. J. 

 O. Westwood, of Oxford, and Dr. O. Bohtlingk, of Jena ; also two Asso- 

 ciate Members, viz. : — Rev. J. D. Bate, Allahabad, and Manlavi 'Abdul 

 Hai, Calcutta. 



Among those whose loss by death the Society have to regret, the Council 

 have to record, of the ordinary members, the names of Lieut. -Col. T. C. 

 Hamilton, Rangoon, J. H. Haworth, Esq., Calcutta, and Lieut. W. A. 

 Holcombe, Assam, who was treacherously murdered by the Nagas, while 

 on duty with the survey party in the Naga Hills. Of the Honorary 

 Members, Dr. Ewald, and the Right Hon'ble Sir E. Ryan, Kt. ; an Associate 

 Member, Sayyid Karamat 'Ali, and Dr. Wilson, of Bombay, Corresponding- 

 Member-. The name of Munshi Niwal Kishwar has been removed from the 

 list on account of non-payment of his subscriptions. 



Among the contributors to the pages of the Journal, the Council regret 

 to annotmce the death of Mr. Thomas W. Beal of Agrah. He was for a 

 long time employed as a clerk in the Sudder Board of Revenue at Allaha- 

 bad and later at Agrah. In 1849, he published at Agrah his Mifidh-utta- 

 wdriTcli, which is dedicated to Sir H. M. Elliot. A second edition (406 

 pages, folio) was lithographed at Lakhnau in 1867. The book is a charm- 

 ing collection of biographies of illustrious Moslems and Indian celebrities, 

 and of choice chronograms, many of which were composed by the author 

 himself. It contains, besides, numerous copies of Muhammadan inscrip- 

 tions taken by the writer in his journeys in Upper India. The book is 

 written in easy and elegant Persian, and shows that the author had a 



