70 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Apriu, 



chere, a paper on the Geology of Cashmere, the western Himalaya 

 and the Afghan mountains, with a note on the fossils by M. Edward 

 de Vemueil. 



The President then addressed the meeting as follows : 



11 The meeting are aware, that since we last met, the mail has 

 announced to us the death in England of a very distinguished 

 Honorary Member of our Society, Dr. Hugh Falconer. To those of 

 us who were personally acquainted with him, this announcement 

 cannot but have caused very deep and sincere sorrow, and all who 

 have followed him in those interesting researches in which he has for 

 some years past taken so leading a part, must feel the magnitude of 

 the loss which the Natural Sciences have sustained by his death. 



" It was only two months ago that the Secretary read to you an extract 

 from a letter addressed to me by Dr. Falconer, when on his way to 

 Gibraltar to explore the caves in which the latest discoveries have 

 been made of human remains. The antiquity of man was the special 

 question on which he had lately been concentrating all the efforts of 

 his logical and well trained mind, and it is in this more than in any 

 other branch of science, that the want of his guidance will be most felt. 



" I do not propose here to give any detailed sketch of Dr. Falconer's 

 career ; more than one such sketch has been published in the English 

 Journals ; the best in the ' Reader,' to which he was occasionally a 

 contributor. He was a member of this Society from 1836, and all his 

 earlier papers appeared in our Journal. His last work in India, as 

 laborious as useful, was to label and catalogue the Tertiary fossils from 

 the Sewaliks and other parts of India, which form the most valuable 

 department of our Museum. 



" The Council have requested me to move the following resolution: — ' 



" ' Resolved that this meeting desires to record an expression of its 

 deep and sincere regret at the death of Dr. Hugh Falconer, and lis 

 sense of the loss which the cause of Natural Science has thereby 

 sustained.' " 



The Resolution being put to the meeting, was passed unanimously. 



Mr. Oldham said, — " Sir, I most entirely concur in the expression of 

 regret, which the Society have just recorded, for the heavy loss which 

 they, in common with every cultivator of science, have sustained by 

 the death of Hugh Falconer. I can, perhaps, more fully and deeply 



