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Election of Honorary Members. 
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Lieutenant-General It. Strachey, R.E., F.R.S., C.S.I., is distinguished 
in many branches of Science, chiefly in Physical Geography, Geology, 
Botany and Meteorology. He was engaged in the scientific survey 
of Kumaon and Garhwal in 1848, where he made valuable geological and 
botanical researches and collections, and wrote an account of its 
Physical Geography. He is the Chairman of the Meteorological Council, 
in which capacity he investigated the atmospheric phenomena resulting 
from the great earthquake at Krakatoa, some years ago. He was delegate 
of Great Britain at the International Prime Meridian Conference at 
Washington in 1884, at which Greenwich was chosen as the Prime 
Meridian. 
He is distinguished as a Geographist, and was President of the 
Royal Geographical Society in 1887-89, when he delivered a course of 
lectures on Geography at Cambridge University, which have been since 
published, and he wrote the article on “ Asia” in the new edition of 
the Encyclopoedia Britannica. 
He has received an honorary degree at Dublin and Oxford 
Universities. 
He has written papers on a large variety of scientific subjects, 
and has been Vice-President of the Royal Society more than once. 
Mr. C. H. Tawney, C.I.E., M.A., at present Librarian of the India 
Office, has distinguished himself by his researches in Sanskrit and 
Prakrit Literature. He has translated the Uttara-rdma-carita (1871), 
Two Centuries of Bhartrhari (in English verse, 1877), and the Malavikd 
gnimitra (2nd Edition, 1891). He has also contributed several papers 
to the Journal of this Society and to the Indian Antiquary. His 
translation of the Kathd-sarit-sagara , 8fc., of Soma-deva, prepared for 
the Bibliotheca Indica , is a classical work which has rendered important 
services to students of ancient Indian civilization, and of the science 
of Folk-tales. The Society owes a special debt to Mr. Tawney for this 
most valuable work. Since his retirement to Europe and acceptance 
of his present post, he has added another laurel to those already 
earned, by translating the important work entitled the Katha-kdsa or 
Treasury of Stories, for the Oriental Translation Fund. 
The Chairman announced that Mr. Frank Finn had been appointed 
a member of the Council and Anthropological Secretary of the Society. 
The Chairman also announced that Dr. A. Alcock had been ap¬ 
pointed to officiate as General Secretary in the place of Mi. C. R. 
Wilson, in addition to his own duties as Natural History Secretary. 
