PROCEEDINGS 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Pou January, 1854. 



At the Anniversary General Meeting of the Asiatic Society, held 

 on the 4th inst. at the usual hour, 



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

 The Secretary read the following report : 



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In presenting their annual report of Proceedings the Council 

 have again occasion to congratulate the meeting on the actual con- 

 dition of the Society, which, both financially and in respect of acces- 

 sion of members, is very favourable. 



At the close of 1852 the Society numbered 139 members. Since 

 that time it has lost three members by death and six by retirement, 

 besides two whose names have been removed from the list under 

 bye-law 13, for non-payment of subscription. There has however 

 been an accession of eighteen new members, making the total num- 

 ber now on the Society's list 146, of whom 23 are absent from India. 



Among the names of deceased members are those of the Hon'ble 

 James Thomason and Major Markham Kittoe, both of them dis- 

 tinguished for the deep interest which they took in the prosperity 

 and usefulness of this institution, and the latter a contributor to its 

 Journal. The name of the other deceased member is Dr. P. Corbyn. 



Finance. 



The abstract Statement No. 1 annexed to this report, shews the 

 receipts of 1853 to have been Es. 19,933-13-7 which added to the 

 sum of Es. 3,762-6-10, the balance in the Society's favour at the 



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