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museum will be opened in Darjeeling next summer, confined to speci- 

 mens of the birds and butterflies and pictures of the flowers of the 

 Darjeeling hills, but handier methods are wanted, and I hope the want 

 will be supplied. I forgot to mention the lists of the Simla flowers 

 prepared by Mr. Babington-Smith, and of the Mahableshwar flora by 

 Mr. Bridwood, both of them valuable, but neither equal to tlie delight- 

 ful standard of the little book I mentioned about English wild flowers. 

 I cannot mention these researches without coupling with them the name 

 of our late Secretary, Mr. deNiceville. His death is a loss we all 

 deeply deplore. It was characteristic of his life that his death came 

 from his devotion to his scientific pursuits. It was on a naturalist's 

 expedition to the lower valleys of the Himalayas that he caught the 

 fever, which caused his untimely and lamented end. 



Oil the Anthropological side we are indebted to that assiduous 

 composer. Major Waddell, for a memoir on the tribes of the Brahma- 

 putra Valley, and to Mr. Holland for another on the Coorgs and 

 Yeruvas. 



And now, gentlemen, I have sketched as rapidly I could the outlines 

 of the work of the Society in 1901, and drawn your attention to the 

 more important and interesting of the matters you will find in our records. 

 It remains for me only to congratulate you again on the progress of the 

 Society, and to thank you for the honour you did me in electing me to 

 the office I regretfully lay down. It will be hereafter a gratifying 

 memory if I have been able in my intercourse with my brother officers 

 to persuade them to cultivate according to their several tastes, habits of 

 observation outside the cutcherry which vary and brighten work, and 

 which continuously deepen by practice their interest in the past or the 

 future of this illimitable country. 



The President announced that the Scrutineers reported the result 

 of the election of Officers and Members of Council to be as follows : — 



President. 

 The Hon. Mr. C. W. Bolton, C.S.I., I.C.S. 



Vice-Presidents. 



H. H. Risley, Esq., B.A., CLE., I.C.S. 

 Colonel T. H. Hendley, CLE., I.M.S. 

 R. D. Oldham, Esq., A.R.S.M., F.G.S. 



Secretary and Treasurer. 

 Honorary General Secretary :— J. Macfarlane, Esq. 

 Treasurer :— W. K. Dods, Esq. 



