54 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 1 , 



Annual Eepoet. 

 In submitting their annual report on the state of the Society's 

 affairs during the past year, the Council have again the satisfaction 

 of adverting to its generally promising character. 



The number of elections during 1861, has been fifty-one, being 

 less by eighteen than that of the preceding year, but considerably 

 exceeding the general average (16) of the previous ten years. 



At the same time, two members have been lost to the Society by 

 death, and nine by retirement. Deducting these, the number of 

 ordinary members on the rolls at the end of the year was 2S1 against 

 242 in 1860. 



Of the ordinary members now on the rolls, 55, or about one-fifth 

 are absent from India, leaving 226 on the paying list. 



The table in the margin shows the fluctuation in the number of 



members during the last ten years. 



The only corresponding member 

 elected during the year is Dr. R. 

 Gosche of Berlin. 



Among those who have been lost 

 to the Society by death, the Council 

 have to record with much regret, 

 the name of Col. E. Baird Smith, 

 * Of this number one is a life- C. B. The unceasing interest which 

 member. Col> Baird Smith, evinced in all 



scientific questions connected with India, naturally led him to take 

 an active part in the affairs of the Society, and to forward its 

 objects whenever opportunity offered. In him the Society has to 

 deplore the loss of a scientific scholar, of high attainments, and a 

 frequent contributor to its Journal. 



Mr. Freeling, who also died within the year, was an able numismatist 

 and a zealous member. 



Finance. 



The financial position of the Society may, on the whole, be regard- 

 ed as satisfactory. 



Ordinary. 



Paying. 



Absent, 



1851 



130 



124 



6 



1852 



139 



122 



17 



1853 



146 



123 



23 



1854 



155 



129 



26 



1855 



162 



128 



34 



1856 



167 



131 



38 



1857 



147 



109 



38 



1858 



333 



193 



38 



1859 



180 



135 



45 



1860 



242 



195 



47 



1861 



281 



226* 



55 



