PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For JFebruary, 1878. 



The Annual Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 6th February, 1878, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



The Hon'ble Sir E. C. Batlet, K. C. S. I., C. I. E., President, in the 

 Chair. 



According to the Bye-laws of the Society, the President ordered the 

 voting papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and Members of 

 Council for 1878, and appointed Messrs. R. B. Shaw and H. H. Locke, 

 Scrutineers. 



The President then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual Re- 

 port. 



Annual Report for 1877. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society, in submitting their usual Annual 

 Report exhibiting the state of the Society's affairs during the year 1877, are 

 glad to be able to state that the position of the Society is on the whole 

 satisfactory, both as regards the state of its finances and the extent and 

 variety of its publications. 



During the year 1877 there has been an accession to the Society of 

 26 ordinary Members, while the losses by death (5), retirement (17), and 

 removal (6) amount to 28. The number of ordinary Members at the close 

 of the year was therefore 345, against 347 in 1876. Of the ordinary 

 Members on the roll, 46 are absent from India, leaving 113 Resident, 163 

 non-Resident, 14 Foreign, and 9 Life Members, on the effective list. 



The annexed Tabular Statement shews the fluctuations in the number 

 of the ordinary Members during the last five years. 



