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mind. He cultivated natural science with no less ardour, and in two 

 branches of it — Entomology and Graminge — he had acquired commendable 

 proficiency. His collection of butterflies and moths was the largest in 

 India in his time, and for years he employed several artists to draw from 

 nature the fourfold changes which these animals undergo in the course 

 of their ephemeral lives. His knowledge of Botany was recognised by 

 Government, which appointed him Superintendent of the Hon'ble Com- 

 pany's Botanical Gardens at Sibpur for a time. He occasionally con- 

 tributed short notes on these subjects to the transactions of the Zoolo- 

 gical and the Linnaean Societies of London, of both of which he was a 

 member. 



On his retirement from India he joined the Council of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and took a prominent part 

 in the management of the affairs of that Society. Though averse to 

 authorship, he was a charming literary correspondent. I always felt deeply 

 grateful to him for most interesting notes of the progress of Oriental Li- 

 terature in Europe, which he regularly sent to me. Nor did he forget our 

 Society. He watched its progress with deep interest, and frequently 

 corresponded with our Secretaries and leading members. Latterly he 

 was occupied in superintending the publication of a Memoir, by Mr. 

 Moore, of the rarer specimens of Lepidoptera in the late Mr. W. S. 

 Atkinson's collection, and contributed a biographical notice of Mr. 

 Atkinson by way of introduction to the first volume of that work. I am 

 glad to be able to announce that your Council have made arrangements 

 for bringing out the third volume of the work under the superintendence 

 of our late President, Mr. W. T. Blanford. We have lost in Mr. Grote 

 a collaborateur and friend the equal of whom it will be hard to obtain. 

 As a personal friend I deeply mourn his loss. 



The following papers were read — 



I. Natural History notes from H. M.'s Indian Marine Survey Steamer 

 u Investigator." Commander Alfred Carpenter, R. N. Commanding, 

 No. 4. On six new Amphipods from the Bay of Bengal. By G. M. Giles, 

 M. D., F. R. C. S., Surgeon Naturalist to the Marine Survey. No. 5. 

 Description of a new species of Crustacea belonging to the Bracliyurous 

 family Raninidw, from the i Swatch of no ground.'' — By J. Wood-Mason, 

 Off 9' Superintendent Indian Museum, and Professor of Comparative Ana- 

 tomy and Zoology, Medical College, Calcutta. No. 6. On some Nodular 

 stones obtained by trawling in 675 fathoms of tvater off Colombo. — By E. 

 J. Jones. A. R. S. M.., Geological Survey of India. 



The paper will be published in Part II of the Journal for 1887. 



