ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



COUNCIL 



OP THE 



STRAITS BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 



FOE THE YEAR 1884. 



The Report which the Council for 1881 have to lay before the 

 Annual General Meeting will, they believe, shew that the interest 

 evinced in the objects for which the Society was established in 

 1878 continues unabated, and that those objects are being steadily 

 kept in view by those to whom the management of the affairs of 

 the Society is entrusted. 



The new members elected provisionally by the Council since the 

 last General Meeting are : — 



Walter Egerton. 



E. E. Abrahainson. 



Francois Deloncle. 



Stair Elphinstone Dairy in pie 



Van Langen. 



L. Wray, Jr. 



W. II. Diethelm. 



D. Brandt. | George Copley. 



A. T. Dew, Perak. 



A. W. O'Sullivan. 



Dr. D. Manson Eraser, North 



Borneo. 

 St.Y. B. Down. 

 E. P. G-ueritz, North Borneo. 

 W. G. Gulland. 

 J. P. Rodsrer, Selaneror. 



These elections have now to be confirmed by the members pre- 

 sent at the General Meeting. 



The following members have retired : — 



Revd. J. Aberigh Mackay. | General II. Man. 



The death of the following members has been announced: — 

 IT. Herwig. | J. T. Thomson, New Zealand. 



