PROCEEDINGS 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



for January, 1869. 



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The Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday the 20th January, 1869. 



T. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the Council's report for the past year. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society, in submitting their annual 

 report for 1868, have the satisfaction of congratulating the Society on 

 its continuing prosperity, both in respect to the increase of members, 

 and the improved status of its finances. 



The heavy debt, brought to the notice of the Society in the last 

 Annual Report, has been materially decreased, while the actual 

 expenditure during the past year exceeds the estimate, laid before the 

 Society in January 1868, by a very small sum. The Council confi- 

 dently hope that by adhering to the course of rigid economy, followed 

 out during the past year, they will, in a short time, be able to free the 

 Society from its debt, and recommend a more liberal outlay for its 

 library and publications, than they felt justified in sanctioning in the 

 past year. 



During the year 1868, there has been an accession of 42 new 

 members, while the Society lost 7 Ordinary members by death, two 

 more than in the preceding year, and 20 by resignation, the same as 

 in 1867. Thus the actual loss amounts to 27 members. Besides, 

 the names of four members have been struck off the list. At the 

 close of 1868, the total number of ordinary members was 427, of 

 which 294 were paying, and 133 absent, members. At the close of 

 1867, the total number of members was 416, of which 307 were 



