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Sir R.Rice; Sir C. Forbes, Bart.; N. B Edmonstone, Esq.;' Lieut-Colonel 

 C. J. Doyle ; Major Carnac ; Colonel Francklin ; Major Close; Richard Clarke, 

 Esq. : in the place of the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone • Sir R. H. Inglis, 

 Bart. ; W. B. Bayley, Esq ; Lieut.-Colonel Bowler; Lieul.-Colonel W. M. G. 

 Oulebrooke ; Charles Elliott, Esq ; Richard Jenkins, Esq. ; and Professor 

 Wilson. 



The next General Meeting was announced for the 16th instant. 



Twelfh Annual Report of the Council ; May 9th, 1835. 

 The Council of the Royal Asiatic Society is again called upon, at the close of 

 another year, to lay before the members a brief review of the Society's history 

 and proceedings during that period ; and, in performing this part of its duty, it has 

 the gratification of being able to appeal to the facts contained in this Report, for 

 the most satisfactory evidence of the Society's extended usefulness and undimi- 

 nished prosperity. 



The Council has the painful task of premising, with deep regret, in which it is 

 persuaded the members of the Society will fully participate, that, although the 

 venerable director, Mr. Henry Colebrooke, still gives the Society the sanction of 

 his name, and takes the warmest interest in its welfare, the unfavourable state of 

 his health continues to disable him from performing those personal services, 

 which, from his great talents, his profound erudition, and correct judgment, have, 

 been, at all times, so valuable and important, and so highly and justly appreciated • 

 by the Society. 



Although, from the auditors' Report on the pecuniary receipts and expenditures, 

 it is seen, that, at the end of the year 1 634, a balance of bOl. 1 s. Ad. remained due 

 by the Society to the treasurer, yet the Council feels assured, that, when the mem- 

 bers take into their consideration the necessarily large expenditure attendant on 

 the publication of the elaborately illustrated work of Ram Raz on Hindu Archi- 

 tecture, this balance must appear to them extremely small. And the Council 

 trusts, that the credit reflected on the Society by bringing before the public a 

 work of so much rarity and importance, will fully compensate for the temporary 

 encroachment of this expenditure on the funds of the institution. 



The Council deems it a matter of congratulation, that the number of deaths and 

 retirements of the members of the Society, since the last anniversary, has been 

 less than in most former periods ; while the number of elections of new members 

 has exceeded the usual average, leaving a considerable numerical balance in 

 favour of the Society. 



In recording the names of those members of whom the Society has been depriv- 

 ed by death during the last year, the Council has the painful duty to enumerate the 

 following :— The Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, K. G. F. S. A. ; the Right Hon. 

 Earl Spencer, K. G. F. R. S ; Baron William Von Humboldt ; Major General 

 Thos. Hardwicke, F. R. S. ; Lieut. Colonel David Wilson ; the Rev. Dr. Morri- 

 son, F. R. S. ; Major James Franklin, F. R. S. ; John Caley, Esq. F. R. S. ; 

 Thomas Snodgrass, Esq. F. R. S. ; Francis Shore, Esq. ; Patrick Heatly, Esq. ; 

 Robert Dent, Esq. ; John St. J. Long, Esq. M. R. L. S. 



The important and valuable additions which have been made to the library 

 and museum during the past year, call forth the warmest acknowledgments of the 

 Council towards the several donors. 



It would be a pleasing task to pass in review all those donations ; to mark in 

 how many instances they have supplied deficiencies, and how many distinguished 

 names have taken this method of expressing their good-will towards the Society, 



