92 Address to the Queen-Empress. [March, 



The following gentlemen have intimated their wish to withdraw 

 from the Society : 



Robert Gordon, Esq. 

 D. G. Barkley, Esq. 

 Capt. T. Boileau. 



The Secretary reported the death of the following Members: 

 Col. G. C. De Pree. 

 J. C. Douglas, Esq. 



The President announced that in accordance with the Resolution 

 passed by the Council at the meeting held ou the 27th January last, 

 the following Address had been presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty 

 the Queen-Empress on the occasion of the Jubilee. 



Address. 



Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the 

 Faith, Empress of India. 



As representatives of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and on behalf 

 of its members, we desire to offer to Her Most Gracious Majesty, our 

 Queen, Empress of India, our loyal and hearty congratulations on the 

 Jubilee of her Majesty's reign. 



In no respect will the Victorian age be more prominently distin- 

 guished in the pages of history than by its activity in scientific research, 

 and by that expansion of the field of knowledge, which is the meed of re- 

 search. This activity is the offspring of Western culture. It was the 

 pride and is the honour of the founders of our Society to have transplanted 

 the spirit of research to this Eastern land ; but it is more particularly 

 during Her Majesty's long and peaceful reign that that spirit has spread 

 abroad and fructified. 



As a condensed record of the part borne by our Society in the 

 advancement of Indian science, during the first century of its existence, 

 a century, nearly one half of which has been passed under the auspices 

 of Her Majesty's beneficent rule, we respectfully beg Her Majesty's gra- 

 cious acceptance of the Centenary Memorial Volume of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal. 



57 Park Street, 

 The 16th February, 1887. 



The Address, which was handsomely engrossed on parchment, was 

 signed by the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, Treasurer, and 

 the Members of Council, and was presented to His Excellency the Vice- 



