PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For February, 1887. 

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The Annual Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on 

 Wednesday the 2nd February, 1887 at 9 p. m. 



E. T. Atkinson, Esq., C. S., President, in the Chair. 



According to the Bye-Laws of the Society the President ordered 

 the voting papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and 

 Members of Council for 1887 ; and appointed Messrs. Gay and Wood- 

 Mason, Scrutineers. 



The President then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual 

 Report. 



Annual Report for 



1886. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal have the honour to 

 submit the following Report on the state and progress of the Society's 

 affairs during the past year. 



Member List. 



During the year under review 24 gentlemen were elected Ordinary 

 Members of the Society, 17 Members withdrew, 5 died, 10 were re- 

 moved from the List in accordance with Rule 38, 1 in accordance with 

 Rule 9, and the names of two gentlemen who had ceased to be Members 

 in 1884, but whose names had been continued on the List for 1885, were 

 also removed. The total number of Members, therefore, at the close 

 of 1886 was 319, against 328 at the end of the preceding year. Of 

 these 93 were Resident, 142 Non- Resident, 18 Foreign, 16 Life, 48 

 Absent from India, and 2 Special Non- Subscribing Members, as will be 

 seen from the following table, which also shows the fluctuations in the 

 number of Ordinary Members for the past 6 years : — 



