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Election of Honorary Members. 
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The Council reported that there were five vacancies in the list of 
Honorary Members, the Council therefore recommended the four fol¬ 
lowing gentlemen for election as Honorary Members at the next 
meeting :— 
Professor Hofrath Georg Btililer, Ph.D., is at present Sanskrit 
Professor at the Vienna University. He was formerly a member of 
the Bombay Education Service, and during that period of his career 
laid the foundation of a reputation for accurate learning which has 
ever since gone on increasing. He took a prominent part in the foun¬ 
dation of the well-known Bombay Sanskrit series, in which many 
excellent editions of classical works in that language, have issued 
from his pen. It is owing mainly to his efforts that the admitted 
excellence of editions of Sanskrit works published in Bombay should 
be attributed. Dr. Buhler has published many articles dealing with 
Sanskrit and Prakrit Epigraphy in the Indian Antiquary and other 
scientific Journals , and is now one of the greatest living authorities on 
the subject. Foremost among his works in this branch of study may be 
mentioned his edition and translation of the Edicts of A 9 oka, published 
in German in the Zeitschrift des deutschen mnrgenldndischen Gesellschaft , 
and in English in Epigraphia Indica. In Oriental Biography, his Life 
of the Jain Monk, Hemacandra, is a model of learned research combined 
with an interesting style. His latest works have appeared in the 
Vienna Oriental Journal under the title of Oriental Studies , and the 
last of these is a most important contribution to our knowledge of the 
Indian Alphabet, which he conclusively shows to be derived from that 
of ancient Phoenicia. 
Lord Rayleigh, who is now prominently before the scientific 
world as the discoverer of a new gas in the atmosphere, has for many 
years been a leading Fellow of the Royal Society of London, to which 
he was admitted in 1873. He was Senior Wrangler and Smith’s 
Prizeman in 1865 and for five years, Professor of Experimental Physics 
in Cambridge University. He has written many scientific papers 
dealing, in the earlier years, chiefly with Electricity and Sound, but 
latterly with a wider range of subjects. His best known work is an 
abstruse treatise on sound, published eighteen years ago. He has been 
the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from British and Foreign 
Universities, and is a Member or Associate of many Scientific Societies. 
At the Anniversary Meeting of the Chemical Society held in March 
last, the Faraday Medal was presented to Lord Rayleigh for the distin¬ 
guished services he has rendered to Chemical Science through the dis¬ 
covery of Argon. 
