80 Election of Honorary Members. [May, 



The Council reported that there were five vacancies in the list of 

 Honorary Members, the Council therefore recommended the four fol- 

 lowing gentlemen for election as Honorary Members at the next 

 meeting : — 



Professor Hofrath Georg Biihler, Ph.D., is at present Sanskrit 

 Professor at the Vienna University. He was formerly a member of 

 the Bombay Education Service, and during that period of his career 

 laid the foundation of a reputation for accurate learning which has 

 ever since gone on increasing. He took a prominent part in the foun- 

 dation of the well-known Bombay Sanskrit series, in which many 

 excellent editions of classical works in that language, have issued 

 from his pen. It is owing mainly to his efforts that the admitted, 

 excellence of editions of Sanskrit works published in Bombay should 

 be attributed. Dr. Biihler has published many articles dealing with 

 Sanskrit and Prakrit Epigraphy in the Indian Antiquary and other 

 scientific Journals, and is now one of the greatest living authorities on 

 the subject. Foremost among his works in this branch of study may be 

 mentioned his edition and translation of the Edicts of A9oka, published 

 in German in the Zeitschrift des deutschen morgenldndisclien Gesellschaft, 

 and in English in Epigraphia Indica. In Oriental Biography, his Life 

 of the Jain Monk, Hemacandra, is a model of learned research combined 

 with an interesting style. His latest works have appeared in the 

 Vienna Oriental Journal under the title of Oriental Studies, and the 

 last of these is a most important contribution to our knowledge of the 

 Indian Alphabet, which he conclusively shows to be derived from that 

 of ancient Phoenicia. 



Lord Rayleigh, who is now prominently before the scientific 

 world as the discoverer of a new gas in the atmosphere, has for many 

 years been a leading Fellow of the Royal Society of London, to which 

 he was admitted in 1873. He was Senior Wrangler and Smith's 

 Prizeman in 1865 and for five years. Professor of Experimental Physics 

 in Cambridge University. He has written many scientific papers 

 dealing, in the earlier years, chiefly with Electricity and Sound, but 

 latterly with a wider range of subjects. His best known work is an 

 abstruse treatise on sound, published eighteen years ago. He has been 

 the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from British and Foreign 

 Universities, and is a Member or Associate of many Scientific Societies. 



At the Anniversary Meeting of the Chemical Society held in March 

 last, the Faraday Medal was presented to Lord Rayleigh for the distin- 

 guished services he has rendered to Chemical Science through the dis- 

 covery of Argon. 



