1.^2 Death of Professor Uudolf von Ruth. [Aug., 



Rai Yatindranath Ray, M.A., B.L., Zemiiider of Taki, proposed by 

 Mnliamaliopadhyaya Malie9 Candia Nyajaiatna, seconded by Baba 

 Pratapa Cajidra Ghosa. 



Sbairis-ul-Ulama Shaikh Mahomed Gilani, Persian Instructor to 

 Government, proposed by Surgeon-Lieut. -Col. G. Ranking, seconded 

 by Dr. G. A. Grierson. 



The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : — 



Babu Hem Candra Gosvami. 



The Secretary reported the death of tlie following members : — 

 Dr. V. Ball (non-Subscribing Member). 

 Dr. R. Gosche, (Associate Member). 

 Professor Rudolf von Roth (Honorary Member). 



The Honorary Philological Secretary read the following an- 

 nouncement of the death of Professor Rudolf von Roth, an Honorary 

 Member of the Society. 



The Council regret that it has fallen to their duty to report the 

 death, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, of Professor Rudolf von 

 Roth, Doctor of Philosophy, Theology and Laws, Ordinary Professor 

 of Oriental Languages and Chief Librarian of the University of Tubin- 

 gen, Member of the Academies of Berlin, Munich, Gottingen, Vienna, 

 St. Petersburg and Paris, and an Honorary Member of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, which took place on the 23rd June, 1895. 



Rudolf Roth was born at Stuttgart on April 3rd, 1821. After 

 taking his degree at Tiibingen, he went to Paris, where, together with 

 Max Miiller, he studied Oriental Literature under Burnouf, He then 

 proceeded to England, where he applied himself to the Vedic MSS. of 

 the East India House and the Bodleian, and returned to Tiibingen in 

 1845. Shortly afterwards he published his first work on the Literature 

 and History of the Veda, which was received Avitli great favour. In 1848 

 he was appointed Extraordinary, and, in 1856, Ordinary Professor of 

 Oriental Languages at Tiibingen ; since which time he published nu- 

 merous essays and treatises of minor importance ; but the work with 

 which his name is imperishably connected is the great St. Petersburg 

 Sanskrit Lexicon, the first volume of which appeared in 1855, while the 

 last was completed in 1875, twenty-five years after the book was first 

 undertaken. In this he was associated with Dr. Bohtlingk, who took 

 charge of the department of Classical Sanskrit, while Roth principally 

 devoted himself to Vedic, and to Medical Literature. Roth's contri- 

 bution to this monumental work has ever since remained the founda- 



