PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1867. 



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The Annual General meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday the 16th January, 1867. 

 E. C. Bayley, Esq., President, in the chair. 

 The Secretary read the Council's Report. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



In accordance with the custom of this Society the Council suhmit 

 their annual report on the present condition of the Society and on the 

 progress of its labours during the past year. With the single exception 

 of Finance, which, owing to temporary causes presently to be explain- 

 ed, is in a less favourable condition than it has been for some years 

 past, the Council believe that in every respect the state of the Society 

 is most satisfactory. The Member-roll, which shewed a slight diminu- 

 tion last year, now re-exhibits a marked increase, the loss of ordinary 

 members by resignation and death being 24 only, while 39 new 

 members have joined the Society. It now counts 391 members 

 against 376 at the close of the last year, and has received therefore a 

 net increase of 15 members. The comparative lists of paying and 

 absent members, shew a still more marked improvement. Last year, 

 there was a decrease of the former by not less than 21, but in the year 

 just concluded, this deficiency has been more than made up, and 38 

 paying members have been added to the roll. The total number is 

 now 305, of whom 146 are residents. The following table shews the 

 number of members for each of the past ten years. 



