PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



. ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1865. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 the 11th January, 1865. 



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



The Secretary read the following Report for 1864. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



In presenting the usual report for the year just ended, the Council 

 have again the satisfaction of congratulating the Society on its con- 

 tinued prosperity, as indicated hoth by the accession of new members, 

 and the number and value of its publications. 



His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Sir John L. M. Lawrence has been 

 pleased to accept the patronship of the Society, left vacant, at the 

 close of the previous year, by the decease of the Right Hon'ble the 

 Earl of Elgin and Kincardine. 



Fifty-three Ordinary members have been elected during the past 

 year, but the losses by death and retirement have been unusually nu- 

 merous, viz. 7 of the former and 21 of the latter, so that the net in- 

 crease is 25, making a total on the 31st December of 380 members 

 against 355 of the preceding year. Among the losses by death, the 

 Council regret to record that of a member of their own body, Mr. H. 

 Scott Smith, Registrar of the Calcutta University, whose sudden and 

 most unexpected death in May last, shortly after his election to the 

 Council of the Society, is remembered with the deepest regret by all 

 who were in any way associated with him. The death of Major J. L. 

 Sherwill while on his way to Europe, has deprived the Society of a 

 member, who, on two occasions, contributed valuable papers to the 

 Society's Journal. 



