PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
For January, 1863. 
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The Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 
the 15th instant. 
A. Grote, Hsq., President, in the chair. 
The Secretary read the following Annual Report for 1862 :— 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
The Council of the Asiatic Society, in submitting their annual 
report for the past year, have the satisfaction of again congratulat- 
ing the Society on its increasing prosperity both in respect to the 
increase of members and the improvement of its finances, 
_ During the year 1862, there has been an accession to the Society 
of 44 members, while the loss by death and retirement, amounts to 
12. The number of ordinary members at the close of the year was 
311 against 281 of the preceding year. Of the ordinary members on 
the roll, 82, or more than one-fourth are absent from India, leaving 
115 Resident and 114 Non-Resident members on the paying list. 
Annexed is a tabular statement shewing the fluctuation in the 
number of the ordinary members during 
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a a & the last ten years. 
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6 a x Of the deceased members, Babu. Rama- 
1853 146-198 93 prasid Roy had been for some time a 
ee ne ae a member of the Council, and a Vice-Presi- 
aan 167. «131 3¢ dent, and was distinguished for the interest 
iso¢ 147 109 88 ~which he took in the prosperity of the 
1858 133 193 38 , 
1859 180 135 45 Society. Dr. Crozier had been for three 
wet aa ee a years a member of the Council. The 
aN : oo ee ce other names in the obituary are the 
11s numper, one has . a ° 
compounded for his sub- Hon’ble W. Ritchie, Rajah Prosunno 
scription. Nath Roy, E. A. Blundell, Esq., Babi 
Jogindra Narain Roy, and T. E. B. Judge, Esq. 
