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Avimnl 7i eport. 



[Feb. 



Annual Report for 19 



01 



Tne Council of the Society have the honour to submit the following 

 Report on the state of the Society's affairs during the year ending 31st 

 December, 1901. 



Member List. 



Our number of Ordinary Members is 328, which is higher than in 

 any year since 1885. 



Forty-eight Ordinary Members have been elected and we have lost 31, 

 namely, 7 by withdrawal, 7 by death, 6 by removal under Rule 9, 6 by 

 removal under Rule 38, and 5 by removal under Rule 40. The total 

 number of Members at the close of 1901 was 328, against 311 for the 

 preceding year; of these 123 were Residents, 133 Non-Residents, 13 

 Foreign, 22 Life, 36 Absent from India, and 1 Special N'on- Subscribing 

 Member, as will be seen from the following table, which also shows the 

 fluctuations in the numbers of Ordinary Members during the past six 

 years : — 





Paying. 



Non-Paying. 





Year. 



1 



d «^ 



d 



i 



6 



13 



<1 



Special 

 Non-Sub- 

 scribing. 



'a 

 o 

 H 



Grand 

 Total. 



1890 



1897 



1898 



1899 



1900 



1901 



105 

 106 

 122 

 120 

 116 

 123 



119 

 115 

 108 

 119 

 124 

 133 



11 



9 

 11 

 13 

 18 

 13 



235 

 230 

 241 

 252 



258 

 269 



23 

 22 

 23 

 21 

 22 

 22 



35 

 35 

 35 

 27 

 30 

 36 





59 

 58 

 59 

 49 

 53 

 59 



294 

 288 

 300 

 301 

 311 

 328 



We have to deploi^e the death of tlie following Ordinary Members : 

 Nawab Ashan-ullah Khan Bahadur, The Most Revd. Dr. Paul Goethals, 

 S.J., Surgeon -General R. Harvey, C.B., Dr. A. von Kraift, Babu Shamlal 

 Mullick, Mr. L. de Niceville, and Mr. G. F. Reader. 



Our number of Honorary Members is complete. During the year, 

 on the recommendation of the Council, Professor J. W. Judd, C.B., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., was elected as an Honorary Member in the place of 

 Professor The Right Hon'ble F. Max Miiller, deceased. 



