72 Munthhj Meeting. [Feb. 



Secretaries and Treasurer. 



J. Wood-Mason, Esq. 

 Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 

 H. M. Percival, Esq., M. A. 

 A. Pedler, Esq., F. C. S. 



Otlier Memlers of Co^mcil. 



D. Waldie, Esq., F. C. S. 

 C. H. Tawney, Esq., M. A. 



Babu Pratapa Chandra Gliosha, B. A. 

 Hon. Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, 0. I. E. 



E. Gay, Esq., M. A. 



Pandit Maliamaliopadliyaya Maliescliandra I^yayaratna, 0. 1. B. 



H. Beveridge, Esq., 0. S. 



W. King, Esq., B. A., D. Sc. 



Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, 0. I. E. 



A. Simson, Esq. 



Dr. J. Scully. 



Pandit Haraprasad Sastri, M. A. 



The meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary Monthly General 



meeting. 



Lt.-Col. Waterhouse on taking the chair said : — 

 Gentlemen, — I have to tender you my warm acknowledgments for 

 the oreat and unexpected honour you have done me in electing me 

 to the honourable and responsible position of President of this Society. 

 I must own my first impulse was to decline the honour in favour of 

 some one possessing better scientific or literary qualifications, and with 

 more time at his disposal to devote to the service of the Society, 

 Friends, however, dissuaded me from taking a step which might have 

 appeared ungracious, or due to a desire to evade duties which my long 

 connection with the Council of the Society seemed to render incumbent 

 upon me. I therefore resolved to accept the post if it were the pleasure 

 of the Society that I should do so, and endeavour to fulfil its responsibili- 

 ties to the best of my power. I need not say that personally it is very 

 gratifying to me to be in a position to advance the interests of the Society. 

 I can only regret that the rules of the Society prevented the longer 

 continuance in office of our late esteemed President, who has done so 

 much to aid the work of the Society both in the Philological and Natural 

 History Departments, and I would propose that a vote of thanks be 

 passed to him for his great services to the Society during his term of 

 office. {The vote of thanks was carried unanifnously.) 



