60 Election of Officers and Members of Council. [Feb, 



The Chairman announced that the Barclay Memorial Fund Medal 

 would be given-for the most important piece of work done in research in 

 Zoology or Botany specially relating to India during 1897. 



The Chairman announced that the Scrutineers reported the result 

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



^ President. 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 



Vice-Presidents. 

 Col. J. Waterhouse, B.S.O. 

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

 The Most Rev. Archibishop P. Goethals, D.D., S.J. 



Secretaries and Treasurer. 



Dr. G. Ranking, M.D. 



F. Finn, Esq., B.A. 



L. de Niceville, Esq., F.E.S. 

 C. R. Wilson, Esq., M.A. 

 Pandit Haraprasad pastri, M.A. 

 C. Little, Esq., M.A. 



Other Members of Council. 

 Babu Pratapa Candra Ghosa, B.A. 

 Dr. D. D. Cunningham, F.R.S., CLE. 

 Dr. G. Watt, CLE. 

 Dr. P. K. Ray. 

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

 Dr. A. R. S. Anderson. 

 A. T. Pringle, Esq. 



G. W. Kiichler, Esq., M.A. 



The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary General Meeting. 

 Dr. A. F. R. Hoevnle, President, in the chair. 



Dr. Hoernle, on taking the chair, said : — 



*' Gentlemen, before we proceed to the ordinary business of this 

 meeting, I wish to tender you my warm acknowledgment of the honour 

 which you have done me by electing me to the responsible position of 

 President of this Society. It is with mixed feelings that, after long 

 hesitation, I have decided to accept the post, — feelings of diffidence in 

 my power of doing justice to its requirements, and feelings of pride in 



