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Paying Absent Total 



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 



1866 305 86 391 



The losses by death (5 in all) include an unusual number of members 



whose labours have rendered them well known to the world at large 

 or in the body of our Society. Foremost among them, we have to 

 deplore the sudden and untimely death of the late Bishop of Calcutta, 

 a man whose pre-eminent worth and rare liberality of spirit have 

 made his decease felt as a public loss, not alone by the clergy whom 

 he ruled and by the members of the ckurch he so nobly represented, 

 but by those of every creed, whose object, like his, is the common 

 welfare of men. 



Dr. Roer was connected with the Society for very many years, as 

 an associate from 1839 to 1852, and as an ordinary member from 1853 

 to the time of his decease. In 1841 he was placed in charge of the 

 Society's Library, and in 1847 was appointed Editor of the Bibliotheca 

 Indica and Secretary to the Philological Committee. In these different 

 capacities, he took an active part in the affairs of the Society and 

 rendered it most valuable service. In him the Society has to deplore 

 the loss of an oriental scholar of high attainments, and a frequent 

 contributor to its Journal and the Bibliotheca Indica. 



Mr. Joseph Gr. Medlicott is another member, whose loss is deeply 

 regretted by very many of our body. In his public capacity, he was 

 well known as one of the earliest and most energetic members of the 

 Geological Survey of India, on the staff of which he worked for 

 upwards of ten years, and contributed in no small degree to the 

 development of that orderly knowledge of Indian geology which we 

 now possess, and which we owe almost entirely to the steady labours of 

 the officers of the Survey. Arriving in India in 1851, already an 



