218 Postponement of Meeting. [Dec. 



o£ tlie rules as passed at the last meeting, in accordance witli the sugges- 

 tions made by members when the j)roposed changes in the rules were 

 circulated ; but as these alterations in no way affected the spirit or 

 substance of any of the rules, the Council thought it was txnnecessary to 

 again circulate them for the approval of the Society, and they would 

 therefore be printed off and issued immediately. 



The President also announced that as the fii'st Wednesday in January 

 would fall on the 3rd during the holidays, when probably many members 

 would be out of Calcutta, it was proposed that the meeting of the Society 

 should be postponed till the 10th instant. 



Col. Thuillier suggested that the 17th would be a better day, and 

 it was therefore agreed that the meeting should be postponed till that 

 date. 



The President announced that the Council recommend the election of 

 Dr. J. Muir, as an Honorary Member of the Society in the room of the 

 late Prof. C. Lassen. 



The following were, the grounds upon which this recommendation 

 was made : 



Mr. John Muir, D. C. L., LL. D., Ph. D. was elected a member of this 

 Society in July 1837, and up to 1854, when he retired from the country, 

 took a deep interest in the labours of the Society. He was an occasional 

 contributor to the Jom'nal of the Society, and attracted considerable at- 

 tention by his contributions on Sanskrit Literature and Philosophy to the 

 pages of the Benares Magazine. His life of Jesus Christ, in Sanskrit verse, 

 established his reputation as a profound Sanskrit scholar. Since his retire- 

 naent from India, he has been most assiduously engaged in oriental research- 

 es, and his essays in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great 

 Britain attest the success with which he has prosecuted them. His great 

 work, however, is his " Sanskrit Texts," in the five volumes of which he 

 has brought together the matm-ed fruits of a long life of patient reading 

 and research, and an amount of learning and critical acumen which place 

 him in the foremost rank among the oriental scholars of the day. His 

 generous gift towards the founding of a Sanskrit chair in the University of 

 Edinbm'gh and the prizes given by him for essays on Indian Philosophy, 

 and a translation of the Vedanta Sutras also deserve honourable mention. 



Mr. H. F. Blaneord exhibited two series of synoj)tical weather charts 

 of India, illustrating the atmospheric conditions which preceded and led up 

 to the remarkably heavy rainfall at Allahabad on the 30th and 31st 

 July, 1875, and that at Delhi, Eohtak, Gm-gaon, &c,, on the 8th and 9th 

 September in the same year. 



