14 



Annual Report. 



[Feb., 







Paying. 







Non-paying. 



Grand 



Year. 











| 



Total. 





Eesident. 



Non-resi- 

 dent. 



Foreign. 



Total. 



Life. 



Absent. 



Total. 





1878 



117 



153 



15 



285 



13 



29 



42 



327 



1879 



111 



154 



16 



281 



12 



36 



48 



329 



1880 



112 



185 



15 



312 



14 



30 



44 



356 



1881 



110 



168 



17 



295 



14 



41 



55 



350 



1882 



101 



155 



18 



274 



15 



48 



63 



337 



1883 



100 



142 



18 



260 



15 



48 



63 



323 



It will be seen from this table that, of the 323 Members on the 31st 

 December 1883, 100 are Resident, 142 Non- Resident, 18 Foreign, 15 Life, 

 and 48 Non- Subscribing Members. During the year one Member, Dr. D. 

 Brandis, compounded for his future subscriptions, but as another Life 

 Member, Mr. W. T. Blanford, was elected an Honorary Member, the 

 total number of Life Members remains the same as it was at the close 

 of 1882. 



At the beginning of the year, there were 3 vacancies in the list of 

 Honorary Members, and the following gentlemen were accordingly elect- 

 ed Honorary Members on the 7th February : — Messrs. W. T. Blanford, 

 A. R. S. M., F. R. S., F. G. S., F. R. G. S., A. R. Wallace, F. L. S., 

 F. R. G. S., and Professor W. D. Whitney. Mr. C. J. Rodgers was 

 elected an Associate Member on the 7th February. 



The Society has lost one of its most active Associate Members dur- 

 ing the year by the murder of Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff, Superintendent 

 in Camorta Island. Mr. de Roepstorff had contributed to the Society 

 many valuable papers on the ethnology of the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands, amongst which may be mentioned three papers entitled " Notes 

 on the Inhabitants of the ISTicobars," and " Tiomberombi : a Nicobarese 

 Tale. A translation." 



The 3 Ordinary Members who died during the year were Raja 

 Pramathanatha Rai, Mr. T. W. H. Tolbort and Captain W. J. William- 

 son. 



Indian Museum. 

 The Hon. H. J. Reynolds, Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle, Major J. Water- 

 house, and Dr. H. W. M'Cann have continued to act as Trustees of the 

 Museum on behalf of the Society during the year. Mr. J. Eliot resigned 

 his post of Trustee on his departure for Europe in July. 



