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Edward Thomas, Esq., 
Col. George Everest, 
Mons. Stainslas Julien. 
The Corresponding members of the Society elected during the 
year are the 
Bev. H. Baker, Tinnivelly, 
Mr. B. Swinhoe, Amoy, 
Dr. M. Haug, Poonah. 
The obituary of the past year contains the name of one of the 
oldest members and warmest friends of the Society, the late Professor 
Horace Hayman Wilson. The services rendered by him to the 
Society and to the cause of Oriental literature have already been put 
upon record in the proceedings for July last, when a resolution was 
passed, expressive of the Society’s sense of the severe loss which it 
had sustained. Another casualty during the year on the list, 
unfortunately but too short a one, of English Orientalists, has 
deprived the Society of the intended editor of the late Sir H. Elliot’s 
unpublished materials for a history of Mahomedan India, Mr. W. 
W. Morley. 
Among its ordinary members, the Society has to regret the death 
of the Bight Hon’ble James Wilson, S. Lushington, Esq., C. S., and 
Bajah Bamchand Sing. 
FINANCE. 
The President briefly drew attention to the deficit in the annual 
income of the Society and to the necessity of supplying it by 
continued exertions to obtain accessions of members. He thought 
the Society were to be congratulated on the state of the Oriental 
Fund, and on the activity which the report showed to have prevailed 
in that Department. He considered that for this activity much of 
the credit was due to Captain Lees. 
The introduction of the reduced rates of subscriptions necessitated 
a division of the Society’s members into two classes resident and 
non-resident. Of the 195 paying members now on the rolls, 101 
belong to the former, and 94 to the latter class. Estimating their 
subscriptions at the two rates respectively, of 48 and 24 rupees per 
annum, the total income would amount to Bs. 4,848+2,256 = 7,104, 
which is less than that derived from the average number, (146) of 
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