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absent by 15. Two members whose names had been struck off from 

 the list by mistake, have been re-instated at their own desire. 



The following comparative numerical abstract of the member list for 

 the last 10 years affords a convincing proof of the steady increase in 

 the prosperity of the Society. 



Paying. Absent. Total. 



1858, 193 40 233 



1859, 135 45 180 



I860, 195 47 242 



1861, 225 55 281 



1862, 229 82 311 



1863, 276 79 355 



1864, 288 92 380 



1865, 267 109 376 



1866, 293 94 387 



1867, 307 109 416 



Of the Ordinary members of the Society, the Council have to re- 

 gret the decease of General Sir J. B. Hearsay, Captain A. R. Fuller, 

 Director of Public Instruction in the Panjab ; Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Short of the Bengal Engineers ; the Honorable Pandit Shambhunatha, 

 the first native of this country who has ever occupied the exalted 

 position of Judge of the High Court of Bengal ; and Babu Jadava- 

 kvishna Singha, for some years an active member of the Society, as 

 Vice-President, and as a member of its Council, and of the Philological 

 Committee. 



Of the Honorary members, two eminent names are on the obituary 

 of last year ; two others must also be noticed, which should have ap- 

 peared on that of 1866, had the Council been apprised of the loss when 

 preparing their Annual report. 



M. Beinaud, a member of the Imperial Institute of France, and | 

 Professor of Arabic, was for 26 years an Honorary member of the 

 Society. He was elected in 1840, in recognition of his eminence as an | 

 Oriental scholar, in which capacity he was at one time well-known to j 

 the Philological members of the Society. He died in the beginning \ 

 of 1866 at an advanced age. 



Colonel Sir G. Everest, whose decease was announced by the Presi- 



