PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



For January, 1852. 



At the Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 held on the 7th of January 1852, at half past 8 p. m. 



Honourable Sir James Colvile, Kt. President, in the chair. 



Mr. L. Clint was named for ballot at the next Meeting ; — proposed 

 by the President and seconded by Dr. A. Sprenger. 



The proceedings of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following Annual Report was next received and adopted. 



ANNUAL REPORT 



Read at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, 



on the 7th January, 1852. 



The Council have the satisfaction of submitting their usual Annual 

 Report on the Society's affairs for the past year, and in the remarks 

 which they have to make will observe the order followed in last year's 

 Report. 



The Society have to report the loss by death of four, and by with- 

 drawal of fifteen members. The first four include the name of Major 

 J. D. Cunningham, a distinguished officer and student, who had 

 contributed several able papers to the Journal. There have, however, 

 been ten admissions during the year, and the Society now numbers one 

 hundred and thirty members, of whom six only are absent in Europe. 



Finances. — The prospects held out in the Finance Committee's Report 

 of last year (Jany. 3rd, 1851,) have been fully realized. The Society's 

 accounts have been subjected to monthly and careful scrutiny by the 

 same Committee. The liabilities have been reduced by Rs. 1804-10,* 



* Debt paid off ....Rs 1,804 10 and the y ear ™w commenced 



Surplus income after pay- should show the Society entirely 



ment of the above debt, 1,770 2 11 r r , T , 



__ free from embarrassment. In sub- 



Rs. 3,574 12 11 stantiation of this fact, the Coun- 

 Annual surplus as esti- „ , . . , , ,, P , 



mated in last year's Cll have only to point to the fol- 



Report, 3 > 000 ° ° lowing abstract of the past year's 



