ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society submit with much satisfaction 

 their Annual Report, shewing the state of the Society's affairs during the 

 year just expired. 



During that period the Society have had to deplore the death of 

 seven members, of whom two, the Hon'ble Sir J. P. Grant and Sir 

 Henry Wilmot Seton, long held the office of Vice Presidents of the 

 Society, and were distinguished for the deep interest they ever evinced 

 in its prosperity and usefulness. In the same list too the Council have 

 to record the names of Major General Hodgson, Colonel Stacy and Colo- 

 nel Wilcox, as authors of valuable contributions to the Society's pub- 

 lications. 



By departure to Europe — the loss of members has been 10, of whom 

 Colonel Forbes, a Vice President, is expected to return immediately, 

 three others in a year or two, and six may be considered as permanently 

 separated from our ranks. 



By actual withdrawal the diminution has been 19, of whom 14 have 

 attributed their secession to the pecuniary difficulties which have been 

 felt so severely during the past year by all classes of the community. 



While we have thus permanently lost 32 members, 26 new members 

 have been elected, and 5 have returned from Europe, leaving our 

 numbers practically the same as at the close of 1847, being subscribing 

 members, actually in India, 159. 



Finances. 



The Council submit with pleasure an abstract statement of the 

 receipts and disbursements for the year 1848. 



