PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For February, 1874. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the -4th 

 February, 1874 at 9 o'clock, P. M. 



Col. H. Hyde, E. E., President, in the chair. 



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

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

 for 1874, and appointed Messrs. Waldie and Peterson, scrutineers. 



The President then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual Eeport. 



Annual Report for 1873. 



In submitting their Annual Report on the state of the Society's affairs 

 during 1873, the Council have to congratulate the Society on its unusually 

 flourishing condition, shown not only by the improved state of its funds, but 

 also by the increase in the number of members and the extension of its 

 sphere of usefulness. 



The improvement in the state of the funds of the Society is owing to 

 the fact of the Government of India having recognised the claims of the 

 Society to an allowance as House-rent, pending the completion of the New 

 Museum, and granted them the sum of Rs. 400 monthly on this account 

 with effect from 23rd March, 1871, the date fixed by the Indian Museum 

 Act for the completion of the New Museum Building. The sum in arrears, 

 thus placed at the Society's disposal, has enabled the Council to clear off 

 all liabilities, to carry out repairs of the Society's property most urgently 

 called for, and yet leave a considerable balance which has been funded. 



The number of elections during the year under review has been 44, 

 including one life member, against 25 of the previous year, and exceeding 

 the average of the last five years bj'- 2. 



During the last 12 months, the Society has lost 18 ordinary members 

 by withdrawal, 2 by cancelling and 6 by death, in all 26, leaving a net in- 

 crease of 18 ordinary members. 



