44 GenerA Meeting for February, 1902. [Feb. 



Additioinil Secretaries. 



Pliilological Secretary:— T. Bloch, Esq., Pli.D. 

 Natural History Seci-etarjr—F. Finn, Esq., B.A., F.Z.S. 

 Anthropological Secietary: — E. A. Gait, Esq., I.C.S. 

 Joint Philological Secretary : — Maliamahopadhyaya Hara- 

 prasad Shastii, M.A. 



Other Members of Council. 



Major A. Alcock, M.B., LL.D., F.R.S. 



J. D. Nimmo, Esq. 



G. L. Griesbach, Esq., F.G.S., C.I.E. 



A. Pedler, Esq., F.R.S. 



J. Bathgate, Esq. 



T. H. D. La Touche, Esq., B.A. 



Captain L. Rogers, M.D., B.Sc, I.M.S. 



Kumar Ramessur Maliah. 



Arnold Caddy, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S. 



The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary General Meeting. 

 The Hon. Mr. C. W. Bolton, C.S.I., I.C.S., President, in the chair. 



The Chairman before taking his seat said : — 



" Gentleman, — Two pleasing duties devolve on me at the outset on 

 assuming the office of President of this Society. In the first place, I 

 have to thank you for the great honour which I have received at your 

 hands to-night. Recalling some names of the many distinguished men 

 who have presided over the Society I felt much hesitation in acquiescing 

 in the wish of the Council to nominate me for election to that dignity. 

 You have now been good enough to ratify the Council's nomination, 

 and it remains to me only to couple with my grateful acknowledgment 

 the assurance that it will be my earnest endeavour throughout my 

 tenure of office to promote the welfare of the Society. My second duty 

 and privilege, is to express to our late President, Sir John Woodburn, 

 our deep obligation for his constant and active interest in the manaj^e- 

 ment and the work of the Society. We are all aware of the great 

 responsibility and burden of his position at the head of this Province, 

 and of the numerous demands on his time. Nevertheless, and, I fear, 

 at the sacrifice of precious leisure and rest, he has taken a full share 

 in the business of the Society, and for this reason our thanks to him 

 are all the more deeply felt." 



