142 Death of Professor Rudolf von Roth. [Aug., 
Rai Yatindranath Ray, M.A., B.L., Zeminder of Taki, proposed by 
Maliamahopadhyaya Malie 9 Candra Nyayaratna, seconded by Baba 
Pratapa Candra Ghosa. 
Sliams-nl-Ulama Shaikh Mahomed Gilani, Persian Instructor to 
Government, proposed by Surgeon-Lieut.-Col. G. Ranking, seconded 
by Dr. G. A. Grierson. 
The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from 
the Society :— 
Babu Hem Candra Gosvaml. 
The Secretary reported the death of the following members :— 
Dr. V. Ball (non-Subscribing Member). 
Dr. R. Gosche, (Associate Member). 
Professor Rudolf von Roth (Honorary Member). 
The Honorary Philological Secretary read the following an¬ 
nouncement of the death of Professor Rudolf von Roth, an Honorary 
Member of the Society. 
The Council regret that it has fallen to their duty to report the 
death, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, of Professor Rudolf von 
Roth, Doctor of Philosophy, Theology and Laws, Ordinary Professor 
of Oriental Languages and Chief Librarian of the University of Tubin¬ 
gen, Member of the Academies of Berlin, Munich, Gottingen, Vienna, 
St. Petersburg and Paris, and an Honorary Member of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal, which took place on the 23rd June, 1895. 
Rudolf Roth was born at Stuttgart on April 3rd, 1821. After 
taking his degree at Tubingen, he went to Paris, where, together with 
Max Muller, he studied Oriental Literature under Burnouf. He then 
proceeded to England, where he applied himself to the Vedic MSS. of 
the East India House and the Bodleian, and returned to Tubingen in 
1845. Shortly afterwards he published his first work on the Literature 
and History of the Veda, which was received with great favour. In 1848 
he was appointed Extraordinary, and, in 1856, Ordinary Professor of 
Oriental Languages at Tubingen ; since which time he published nu¬ 
merous essays and treatises of minor importance ; but the work with 
which his name is imperishably connected is the great St. Petersburg 
Sanskrit Lexicon, the first volume of which appeared in 1855, while the 
last was completed in 1875, twenty-five years after the book was first 
undertaken. In this he was associated with Dr. Bohtlingk, who took 
charge of the department of Classical Sanskrit, while Roth principally 
devoted himself to Vedic, and to Medical Literature. Roth’s contri¬ 
bution to this monumental work has ever since remained the founda- 
