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at work which reposes on an eternal basis of fact, and of which the 
object at least is eternal, — a work which all civilised nations feel 
bound to pursue.” 
There were 12 admissions of new Fellows this session. Last 
session the admissions amounted to 18 ; whilst during the three 
preceding sessions the admissions attained the average number of 
36. The high rate, therefore, which characterised those three 
sessions has not been maintained either in this session or the 
immediately preceding one. But the admissions have been more 
than sufficient to maintain the numerical efficiency of the Society, 
notwithstanding the inevitable diminution of its numbers through 
death. It is with regret that I have to record the fact that during 
the past session the Society has lost ten Ordinary Fellows and one 
Honorary Fellow by death. Of these obituary notices will be 
forthcoming at the proper time and place, but I may be per- 
mitted to say a few words regarding some of the deceased Fellows 
who are personally, as well as from their public position, known to 
most of us who are here engaged in carrying on the work of the 
Society. 
Sir Henry Yule, an Honorary Fellow of this Society, was born 
at Inveresk in May 1820, He was destined for an Indian military 
career, and in December 1838 he joined the Bengal Engineers. 
He served in the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns, and during the 
Mutiny, and was afterwards successively Under-Secretary and 
Secretary of the Public Works Department in India. In 1875 he 
was appointed a Member of the India Council. He was editor of 
the Travels of Marco Polo and of many other books of mediseval 
adventure in Asia. II is Glossary of Anglo-Indian Terms is con- 
sidered a very valuable work. 
Andrew Young, a man of true literary and poetic feeling, died 
on Saturday, the 30th November 1889. He had attended a meeting 
of this Society on the Monday preceding. After a brilliant career 
in arts and theology at the university of this city, where he gained 
in Professor Wilson’s class the prize for the best poem on “ The 
Highlands,” he was appointed to the Head-Mastership of Niddrie 
School, and afterwards became English Master in Madras College. 
