156 Nomination of Honorary Members. [August, 



The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting — 



S. S. Jones, Esq., B. A., C. S., Asst. Magistrate, Sasseram, proposed 

 by Babu Rajendralala Mitra, seconded by Mr. H. Blocbmann. 



R. B. Thomson, Esq., C. S., Asst. Commissioner, Karnal, Banjab, pro- 

 posed by Mr. D. C. J. Ibbetson, C. S. seconded by Mr. M. L. Dames. 



The following gentleman has intimated his desire to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



E. Benedict, Esq., Calcutta. 



The President announced that the Council had nominated, as fitting 

 persons to become Honorary Members of the Society, Dr. Werner Siemens 

 of Berlin, Dr. Bohtlingk of Bonn, and Prof. J. O. Westwood of Oxford. 



The following were the grounds on which this recommendation was 

 made : 



Dr. W. Siemens, 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 introduced the 

 covering of telegraph wire with gutta percha and india rubber. He 

 recommended the first submarine telegraph through the Bed Sea, in order 

 to establish direct communication with India from Europe. When this 

 failed and telegraphing became so imperfect that letters often reached 

 their destination before messages, he promoted with immense zeal and 

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

 working so well, 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 communication with Europe perfect, and is acknow- 

 ledged to have been by far the greatest improver and perfector of Tele- 

 graphy in general, thus becoming the general promoter of the most bene- 

 ficial scientific improvement of modern times. 



Dr. Bohtlingk is recommended in appreciation of the great services 

 which he has rendered to the study of Sanskrit as evinced by his learned and 

 elaborate Dictionary of the Sanskrit language. 



Professor Westwood the celebrated entomologist, is recommended on 

 account of the great service he has rendered to Indian (and generally to 

 Asiatic) Zoology by numerous valuable entomological papers illustrated 

 by his own hand ; among which may be particularly mentioned his splendid- 

 ly illustrated " Cabinet of Oriental Entomology" and his " Thesaurus 

 Entomologicus Oxoniensis," just completed. 



In accordance with the rules of the Society these names would be 

 hung up in the Meeting-Room of the Society until the next ordinary 

 meeting when they would be balloted for. 



