PROCEEDINGS 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Eoe Januaky, 1855. 



At the Annual General Meeting of the Society held on the 

 3rd inst. 



Sir James W. Colvile, Kt. President, in the Chair. 

 The Secretary read the following 



EEPOET. 



The Council have the satisfaction of again congratulating the 

 Society on its increasing prosperity both in respect of the accession 

 of members and the improvement of its finances. 



The number of elections in the past year has exceeded that of 

 any previous year since 1849, and consists of one honorary and 

 twenty-two ordinary members. The loss, during the same period, 

 has been by death six, and by retirement eight, in all fourteen, 

 leaving on the Society's roll 155 ordinary members, of whom only a 

 few are permanently absent from India. 



The obituary includes the names of the late accomplished scholar 

 Sir H. M. Elliot, Prof. Jameson of Edinburgh, an old and distin- 

 guished honorary member, Dr. J. B. Mill, Dr. N. Wailich, Capt. T. 

 Latter, and Capt. Boys. 



The decease of the three members first named has already been 

 specially announced at ordinary general meetings, which, in the case 

 of Sir H. Elliot and Prof. Mill, have recorded resolutions, expressing 

 their sense of the loss thereby inflicted on the cause of Oriental 

 Literature. Capt. Latter was known as an excellent Burmese scho- 

 lar and as the compiler of a grammar aud other elemeutary works 

 in that language. Capt. Boys had contributed, partly in our jour- 



