22 



Annual Report. 



[Feb. 



The following table shows the fluctuations in the number of Ordinaiy 

 Members for the past 6 years. 



Yeak. 



Paying. 



Non-paying. 



Grand 



Resident. 



Non-resi- 

 dent. 



17/) 

 165 

 153 

 15 A 

 185 

 168 



Foreign. 



Total. 



Life. 



Absent. 



Total. 



Total. 



1876 

 1377 

 , 1878 

 1879 

 1880 

 1881 



119 

 113 

 117 

 111 

 112 

 110 



i'i 



15 

 16 

 15 

 17 



294 

 290 

 285 

 281 

 312 

 295 



5 

 9 

 13 

 12 

 14 

 14 



48 

 46 

 29 

 36 

 30 

 41 



53 

 65 



42 

 48 

 44 

 bo 



347 

 345 

 327 

 329 

 356 

 350 



To fill four of the vacancies in the Honorary Member List caused by the 

 deaths of Sir John Phillippart, Count de Noe, Professor Isaac Lea, Colonel 

 W. Mum'O and Sir J. W. Colvile, the following Gentlemen were, on the 

 recommendation of the Council, elected Honorary Members: — Professor 

 Hermann L. F. Helmholtz, Dr. Rudolph von Roth, Sir William Thomson 

 and Professor William Wright. The remaining vacancy has been left 

 unfilled for the present. 



The Society has lost the following Ordinary Members by death during 

 the 3^ear 1881 : — Major-General Edward Tuite Dalton, the author of the 

 " Ethnolog}"" of Bengal," and of several papers on the Geography and 

 Ethnology of Assam published in the Society's Journal and Proceedings, 

 Captain W. H. Johnstone, Kumar Kantichandra Singh, Mr. L. Mandelli, 

 Mr. C. Magrath and Mr. W. M. Souttar. 



Indian Museum, 



Sir Ashley Eden, President, (from the date of his election in March), 

 Mr. C. H. Tawney, Mr. H. Beverley and Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle have acted 

 as Trustees on behalf of the Society. On Mr. A. Pedler leaving India in 

 May, Mr. J. Eliot was elected Trustee in his place. 



^ The following presentations have been made to the Museum, throufli 

 the Society, during the year : — (1) Weapons from the Andamans and the 

 Nicobars presented by Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff ; (2) Spindle whorls, frao-- 

 ments of clay figures, pieces of pottery and other antiquities found in 

 excavations carried on at Jowhri Dih, presented by Mr. J. E. P. Lincke • 

 (3) Hollow earthenware structures probably used as ornaments on a balus- 

 trade, and a brick from Moti Bazar, Bulandshahr, presented by Mr. F. S. 

 Growse. 



