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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society . 
[No. 1, 
Annual Eeport. 
In submitting their annual report on the state of the Society’s 
affairs during the past year, the Council have again the satisfaction 
of adverting to its generally promising character. 
The number of elections during 1861, has been fifty-one, being 
less by eighteen than that of the preceding year, but considerably 
exceeding the general average (16) of the previous ten years. 
At the same time, two members have been lost to the Society by 
death, and nine by retirement. Deducting these, the number of 
ordinary members on the rolls at the end of the year was 281 against 
212 in 1860. 
Of the ordinary members now on the rolls, 55, or about one-fifth 
are absent from India, leaving 226 on the paying list. 
The table in the margin shows the fluctuation in the number of 
members during the last ten years. 
The only corresponding member 
elected during the year is Dr. E. 
Gosche of Berlin. 
Anions: those who have been lost 
to the Society by death, the Council 
have to record with much regret, 
the name of Col. E. Baird Smith, 
C. B. The unceasing interest which 
Col. Baird Smith, evinced in all 
scientific questions connected with India, naturally led him to take 
an active part in the affairs of the Society, and to foiwaid its 
objects whenever opportunity offered. In him the Society has to 
deplore the loss of a scientific scholar of high attainments, and a 
frequent contributor to its Journal. 
Mr. F reeling, who also died within the year, was an able numismatist 
and a zealous member. 
Ordinary. 
Paying. 
Absent. 
1851 
130 
124 
6 
1852 
139 
122 
17 
1853 
146 
123 
23 
1854 
155 
129 
26 
1855 
162 
128 
34 
1856 
167 
131 
36 
1857 
147 
109 
38 
1858 
3 33 
193 
38 
1859 
180 
135 
45 
1860 
242 
195 
47 
1861 
281 
226* 
55 
* i 
Of this number one 
is a life- 
member. 
Finance. 
The financial position of the Society may, on the whole, be regard¬ 
ed as satisfactory. 
