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paying, and 109 absent members. Thus while the total number of 

 members during 1868 rose from 416 to 427, there has been a tem- 

 porary decrease of paying members from 307 to 294. 



The following is a tabular statement showing the fluctuation in 

 the number of paying and absent members during the last ten years. 



Paying. Absent. Total. 



1859 135 45 180 



1860 195 47 242 



1861 225 55 280 



1862 ... 229 82 311 



1863 276 79 355 



1864 288 92 380 



1865 267 109 376 



1866 293 94 387 



1867 307 109 416 



1868 294 133 427 



Two members of the Society were in the past year elected Honor- 

 ary Members, A. Grote Esq., the late President of the Society, and 

 Dr. T. Thompson. To the list of Honorary Members, the names also 

 of General A. Cunningham and Professor Bapudeva Sastri were 

 added. Mr. F. H. Foucaux of Paris, and Professor Holmboe of Chris- 

 tiania were elected corresponding members of the Society. Of the ordi- 

 nary members of the Society, the Council regret the decease of the 

 Honorable Prosonno Coomar Thakur, C. S. I., Calcutta ; the Honor- 

 able A. A. Roberts, C. B., C. S. I., Resident Hyderabad; Maulvi 

 Maula Bakhsh, Khan Bahadur, Patna ; Mr. H. D. Robertson, C. S., 

 Saharunpore; Mr. C. B. Thornhill, C. S., Allahabad; Mr. S. Fenn, 

 Attorney, Calcutta ; and Mr. F. Hill, Professor of Civil Engineering, 

 Calcutta. 



Museum. 

 At a special general meeting held in November last, formal sanc- 

 tion was given to the transfer, to the Trustees of the Indian Museum, 

 of all the Society's collections, except those of books, coins, pictures 

 and busts. 



Finance. 

 The active measures taken in 1867 to diminish the expenditure 

 of the Society were continued during last year. In the beginning 



