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Annual Report. 



[Feb. 



Annual Report for 1897. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society have the honour to submit the 

 following Report on the state and progress of the Society's affairs 

 during the past year : — 



Member List. 



During the year under review, 16 Ordinary Members were elected, 

 12 withdrew, 7 died, 3 were removed from the list under Rule 40, being 

 more than three years absent from India. There was thus a net loss of 

 6 Ordinary Members during the year. The total number of Members at 

 the close of 1897, was 288, against. 294 for the preceding year; of 

 these 106 were Residents, 115 Non-Residents, 9 Foreign, 22 Life, 85 

 Absent from India and 1 Special Non- Subscribing Member, as will be 

 seen from tlie following table, which also shows the fluctuations in the 

 numbers of Ordinary Members during the past six years : — 





Paying. 



Non-Paying. 





Year. 



1 



-+3 



&=4 



3 



o 



3 



1 

 < 



33 



Special 

 Non-Sub- 

 scribing-. 



IS 

 o 



Grand 

 Total. 



1892 



115 



127 



11 



253 



22 



2 



57 



810 



1893 



116 



123 



12 



251 



22 



33 



2 



57 



308 



1894 



98 



125 



12 



235 



22 



36 



^ 



60 



295 



1895 



108 



122 



12 



242 



23 



31 



1 



55 



297 



1896 



105 



119 



11 



235 



23 



35 



1 



69 



294 



1897 



106 



115 



9 



230 



22 



35 



1 



58 



288 



The seven Ordinary Members, the loss of whom by death during 

 the year we have to regret, were Nawab Sayid Asghar All Diler Jang 

 Khan Bahadur, Sir Ananda Ram Gajapati, Prince Mahomed Mrukh 

 Shah, Mr. S. E. Peal, Raja Lachman Singh, Mr. W. T. Taylor and 

 Captain E. Y, Watson. 



The lists of Honorary Members, Special Honorary Centenary Mem- 

 bers and Associate Members, continue unaltered from last year, there 

 having been no casualties ; their numbers stand at 24, £, 10, respectively. 



