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Paying. Absent. Total. 



1856, 131 36 167 



1857, 109 38 147 



1858, 193 40 233 



1859, .'. 135 45 180 



1860, 195 47 242 



1861, 225 55 281 



1862, 229 82 311 



1863, 276 79 355 



1864, 288 92 380 



1865, 267 109 376 



Among the honorary members, the Council regret to record the death 

 of Dr. Hugh Falconer, long a member of the Society, and one whose 

 name is indissolubly associated with its labours. The closing volume of 

 its Researches, published in 1836, contains not less than 5 papers from 

 Dr. Falconer, then in the midst of his Sewalik discoveries ; and 3 other 

 papers on the fossils from that interesting range of hills were published 

 by him about the same time in vols. 5 and 6 of Prinsep's Journal. 

 In 1834, he had previously drawn attention, in the same Journal, to 

 the aptitude of the Himalayan range for the culture of Tea. A letter 

 from him, when at Saharunpore, seems to have conveyed to Calcutta 

 the first intelligence of the great cataclysm of the Indus in 1841, the 

 cause of which had the greater interest for him, in that he had then 

 recently returned from an expedition to Cashmere and the great gla- 

 ciers of the Mustagh range. In the following year, Dr. Falconer went 

 to England, where, besides contributing many papers to the Royal, 

 Asiatic, Geologlical and Linna^an Societies, he commenced with Col. 

 Cautley the ' Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' the text of which has unfor- 

 tunately been left incomplete. On his return to India in 1848, his 

 residence in Calcutta enabled him for the first time to be an office- 

 bearer of the Society, and before finally leaving India in 1855, he 

 undertook the arrangement, in their Museum, of the tertiary fossils with 

 which his earlier researches had made him so familiar. During the 

 10 years which followed on his return to England, he contributed to 

 the Geological Society an important paper ' on the species of Mastodon 

 and Elephant occurring in the fossil state in England', the 2nd part of 

 which, though read so far back as 1857, has been published in that 



