PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Eor Janfaet, 1856. 



At the annual general meeting of the Society held on the 2nd of 

 January, 1856. 

 Babtj Ramgopal Ghose, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 The Secretary read the following report. 



'Report. 



The Council have the satisfaction of submitting their report on 

 the operations of the Society for the past year, and in doing so, wish 

 to call attention to the state of its member-list w r hich is in every 

 respect satisfactory. 



At the close of 1851 the number of ordinary members on the 

 Society's list was 130, during 1852 this was increased to 138, the 

 elections of 1853-54 added 17 more, making the total at the begin- 

 ning of the last year 155. Since that time there has been an acces- 

 sion of 13 new members while the loss during that period has been 

 2 by death and 5 by retirement, leaving on the Society's roll at the 

 close of the year 161 members, of whom 33 are absent from India. 



The list of honorary members has received a single addition 

 during the year : the individual elected is the distinguished Sanskrit 

 scholar, Raja Radhakant Deb. 



Amongst the members lost by death during the year under review 

 the Council have to name Major Genl. W. N. Forbes, a distin- 

 guished and most zealous member and for sometime a V. P., whose 

 loss the Society has recorded by a vote of respect to his memory 

 passed at its ordinary general meeting in January last. The only 

 other member lost by death is Mr. Gr. C. Cheap of the Civil Service. 



