PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Fof^_ February, 1875. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 3rd 

 February, 1875, at 9 o'clock p. M. 



Colonel H. Hyde, R. E., President, in the chair. 



According to the bye-laws of the Society, the President ordered the 

 voting papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and Members of 

 Council for 1S75, and appointed Messrs. Waldie and Schwendler, Scrutineers. 



The President then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual 

 Report. 



Annual Report fop^ 1875. 



In submitting their Annual Report on the state of the Society's affairs 

 during 1874, the Council have to congratulate the Society on the fact that 

 its condition, though apparently less flourishing than in 1873, is still satis- 

 factory, both as regards the state of its funds and the number of its paying 

 or effective members. 



The number of elections during the year under review has been 35, 

 against 44 of the previous year. 



During the year the Society has lost 14 ordinary members by with- 

 drawal, 11 by cancelling and 5 by death, in all 30, leaving a net 

 increase of 5 ordinary members. 



At the commencement of 1874, there were 358 ordinary members on the 

 list, but in accordance with the provisions of rule 14, the names of 22 who 

 had been absent from India upwards of three years, and were not likely to 

 return, have been struck off, so that there will now be a total of 33G + 5, or 

 341 ordinary members on the list. 



Of these 341 members, 48 are absent from India, of whom 13 are sub- 

 scribing members, 3 are life members, thus making a total of 309 paying 

 members, of whom 140 are resident and 1G9 are non-resident. The name of 

 one of the latter has to be removed to the absentee list under rule liB. 



