142 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Aug. 



J H. Peppe, Esq., proposed by Mr. Grote, seconded by Mr. Blanford. 



The Chairman brought forward a report from the Council recom- 

 mending the election of Mr. E. Blyth to fill the vacancy, on the 

 list of the Society's Honorary Members, caused by the death of Dr 

 H. Falconer. 



The report stated Mr. Blyth 's claims in the following terms : — 



11 Mr. E. Blyth is well known to all Indian Naturalists through the 

 Society's own Journal, in which, besides periodical Museum reports 

 which are in themselves full of information interesting and useful to field 

 Naturalists in this country, he has published several Monographs on 

 groups of birds, such as the Cuckoos, Hornbills, &c. Mr. Blyth had, 

 before coming out to India in 1840, published a paper in which he 

 brought together the different species of the Genus Ovis. 



" The extensive and valuable collections in the Society's Museum, 

 which are now in course of transfer to Government, may be said 

 almost to have been gathered by him while he was the Society's 

 Curator." 



The Chairman announced the satisfaction which he experienced in 

 finding that the Council had made such a selection. The last few 

 elections of Honorary Members had added to the list the names of 

 oriental scholars, and it was right that the new candidate should 

 represent science. 



The Hon'ble G. Campbell gave notice that, at the next meeting, he 

 would move for a report from the Council of the replies and informa- 

 tion elicited by the Circular seeking to obtain a series of the Crania 

 of the races and tribes of British Asia, and of the character of the 

 Crania so obtained ; also to call the attention of the members to the 

 great importance of inquiries regarding the aboriginal races in out 

 immediate vicinity. 



Mr. Campbell prefaced his notice with the following remarks : — 



" The Science of Comparative Philology, and through it the wider 

 and greater science of Ethnology, may truly be said to have been origin- 

 ated, in an active and practical form, in this veiy assembly. All 

 attribute to the early labour of Sir W. Jones and his fellow-workers 

 the first place in the movement, which now, in its ultimate develop- 

 ment, has made Ethnology the most popular and rising science of the 

 day — so rising that I expect soon to find that, instead of collecting 



