38 Address. [Feb. 



Sirdar Giu-djal Singh and Mr. A. E. Mcdlycott, respectively, ordinary 

 members, defaulters under rule 38. 



A letter of condolence on the illness of Dr. Rajendralal Mitra was 

 sent to his son. 



The Report having been read the President invited the Meeting to 

 put any questions or offer any remarks which any member might think 

 necessary in connection therewith. 



No remarks having been offered the President moved the adoption 

 of the Report. The motion was unanimously carried. 



The PnEsiDENT then addressed the Meeting as follows : 



Address. 



The Society. — In the explanation of the affairs of the Society, read 

 by our General Secretary, you will find a full account of the manner in 

 which the trust committed to us by you has been managed during the 

 past year. We have again to state that our income just about balances 

 our expenditure, and this is a matter for congratulation, since the 

 quantity of our publications has been more than the average, and, I am 

 glad to say, has also kept up to the high standard attained by the 

 Society's Journal. Before reviewing the work accomplished during the 

 year, it affords me great pleasure to again bring to your notice the 

 valuable services rendered by the officers of the Society. Mr. H, M. 

 Percival, the General Secretary, Mr, J. Wood-Mason, the Natural 

 History Secretary, Dr. Hoernle, the Philological Secretary, Mr. J. Eliot 

 and Mr. A. Pedler as Treasurers, have all devoted themselves to the 

 work entrusted to them with the result that you may rest assured 

 that your affairs are well administered. I would ask you therefore for 

 a vote of thanks to the office-bearers mentioned for their voluntary 

 services during the year 1887. (Garried unanimously.) 



Ohihiary. — Year by year we have to announce the loss of members 

 who have been active contributors to the Society's Journal or who have 

 aided its objects in other ways. The obituary for 1887 records the 

 deaths of the Honourable Sir Ashley Eden, Colonel G. C. De Pree, Mr. 

 J. 0. Douglas, Mr. T. G. H. Moncrieffe, Lieut.-Col. T. C. Plowden, and 

 Babu Girijabhiisan Mukharji. I need not recall to your minds the 

 services of Sir Ashley Eden, for there is hardly any important institution 

 or public movement in Bengal during the last thirty years with which 

 he had not been more or less connected. Mr. J. 0. Douglas is known 

 to you for his paper on Indian bees ; and his efforts in attempting the 

 acclimatisation of Italian bees in India. 1 have also to record the 



