ANNUAL REPORT 



of the 



Straits Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 

 for 1915. 



Membership. During 1915 the 

 elected : — 



following new members we 



Mr. 



A. F. Worthington, 



Mr. 



V. Knight. 



,, 



Lim Cheng Law, 



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A. W. H. Hamilton. 



,, 



See Tiong Hwa, 



>> 



J. G. Eaggi. 



>> 



H. C. W. Allen, 



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F. M. Baddeley, 



Dr. 



C. Strickland, 



>> 



J. W. Boyd- Walker. 



Mr. 



L. Lewton-Brain, 



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C. C. Brown. 



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0. T. Dussek, 



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H. D. Mundell. 



The Branch lost by death 4 members, and from other causes 5 

 members. 



In January 1916 the following were elected : — Messrs. H. W, 

 Ford, T. G. Watson, Shiva Prasad Gupta, J. W. Cundell Ellis and 

 Professor Argyll Campbell. 



Council. During the year Mr. Gold and Mr. Still resigned 

 their places on the Council. To fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Gold's 

 resignation, the Hon. W. G. Maxwell was co-opted. Mr. Still's 

 place was not filled up. 



Journal. Three parts of the Journal were issued. The first 

 part contained the Proceedings, and four short papers as follows: — 

 J. E. Nathan, A Journey over the Main Eange from Perak to 

 Pahang. 



H. Overbeck, New Notes on the Game of Chongkak. 



H. N. Ridley, New and Rare Malayan Plants. 



I. H. Burkill, An Abnormality in the Coconut Palm, 



The second part contained Dr. R. Hanitsch's monograph on the 

 Malayan Blattidae or cockroaches. The last part contained the 

 Hikayat Sri Rama verbatim from an old manuscript in the Bodleian 



