PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Fob January, 1853. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Society adjourned under 

 Bye-Law 59 was held on the 19th January 1853, in the Society's 

 Museum at half-past 8 p. m. 



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



The proceedings of the December meeting having been read and 

 confirmed, the Secretary read the following Report. 



REPORT. 



In laying on the table the accounts for the past year, the Council 

 have the pleasure to call attention to the generally improving cha- 

 racter of the state of the Society's affairs. 



The Annual Report for 1851 held out the prospect of the Society's 

 finances being re-established on a healthy footing in the course of 

 the year just elapsed, and this prospect has been quite realized, as 

 the accounts now on the table will show. 



The Society has lost 2 members by death and 4 by withdrawal 

 during the year. Mr. ~W. Mackintosh died in England, and the loss 

 of Mr. H. W. Torrens in August last was the occasion of a resolu- 

 tion which will be fresh in the recollection of all present. 



The list moreover of Honorary Members has lost the name of a 

 distinguished scholar, that of Eugene Burnouf. 



The accessions during the year have however been more numerous 

 than the losses, 10 new members have been elected, so that the Society 

 now numbers 139 members, of whom 17 only are absent from India. 



The gross Receipts and Disbursements of the Society in the course 

 of the year were as follows : — 



