70 Obituary Notice of Dr. C B. Wilson, [November 



At the request of the Council, Mr. H. R. James of the Patna College, 

 contributed an obituary notice of Dr. Wilson : — 



Charles Robert Wilson. 

 {horn March 27th, 1863 ; died July 2Uh, 1904). 



Literature and education in India have suffered a great loss in the 

 death of Charles Robert Wilson at the comparatively early age of 41 

 years. His loss will be very specially felt in this Society, with which 

 he had been connected since J 891, and which he served in various 

 capacities. 



Mr. C. R. Wilson was elected a member of the Society on the 6th of 

 May 1891. In January 1892 he took charge of the duties of Philological 

 Secretary and editor of the Journal, Part I. In the year 1893 he was 

 elected General Secretary of the Society, and continued in that office 

 till 1897. During the years 1902, 1903 and part of 1904, he was Treasurer 

 of the Society. 



The following papers were contributed by Mr. Wilson : — 



1. Note on an old Picture of the Riverside of Calcutta in 1788, — 

 published in Proceedings for August 1892. 



2. Note on the Topography of the River in the 16th Century from 

 Huglytothe Sea as represented in the Da Asia of de Barros, — published 

 in Journal, Part I, No. 2, 1892. 



3. The Topography of Fort William, — published in Journal Part I, 

 No. 2 of 1893. 



4. An unrecorded Governor of Fort William, — published in Journal 

 Part I, No. 2 of 1898. 



5. On the Names hitherto unidentified in our Dutch Monumental 

 Inscription, — published in Journal Part I, No. 3, 1904. 



6. Proposed identification of the name of an Andhra King in the 

 Periplus, — published in Journal Part I, No. 3, 1904. 



In all his connection with this Society, Dr. Wilson will be remember- 

 ed for his remarkable ener^^-y, his catholic sympathies, and for the extra- 

 ordinary enthusiasm which he brought to bear on anything of whatever 

 nature, which had once engaged his interest. He had also the true in- 

 stinct for research. Outside the Society his more solid literary labours 

 include the well-known two volumes of his ' Early Annals of the 

 English in Bengal ' and his not less familar work in connection with 

 the discovery and elucidation of the sites in the Old Fort, Calcutta. In 

 both these undertakings his wonderful power of work, and his masterly 

 grasp of the thing he had taken in hand, are displayed with conspicu- 

 ous success. The two volumes of Annals have a permanent value, 



