Annual Report. [Feb. 
Yeae. 
Paying. 
Non- 
Paying. 
Total. 
Total. 
Resident. 
Non-resi¬ 
dent. 
Foreign 
Life. 
Absent. 
1873 
1874 
1875 
1876 
1877 
1878 
302 
312 
292 
294 
290 
260 
116 
127 
113 
119 
113 
117 
186 
184 
179 
175 
163 
153 
14 
15 
3 
3 
3 
5 
9 
13 
53 
32 
50 
48 
46 
29 
358 
346 
345 
;47 
345 
327 
The diminution in the numbers is apparent rather than real, and is due 
to the lists having previously included a number of individuals who had 
virtually ceased to he members, and had for a considerable period abstained 
from paying subscriptions. All such have now been removed from the list 
of Members, under Rule 38. _ . . 
During the year one Member compounded for his subscription, and the 
free life-membership of the Society was granted to Sir E. C. Bayley and 
General Thuillier on their retirement from India. 
The Society has specially to deplore the loss of Mr. H. Blochmann, who 
had for many years past so ably filled the post of Philological Secretary, and 
whose researches into the Ancient History and Geography of Bengal, and 
more especially his labours in connection with the editing of the text and 
translation of the Ain-i-Akbari, and other Muhammadan historical works, 
have enriched the pages of the Society’s Journal and Bibliotheca Indica, 
and gained for their author a world-wide renown among scholars. It is 
greatly to be regretted that by Mr. Blochmann’s untimely death a great 
part of the immense wealth of valuable information that he had collected 
on these subjects has been lost to the world. 
Another serious loss to the Society is Mr. S. Kurz, the author of many 
valuable papers relating to the botany of India and Burma, and. by whose 
early death the Society loses a zealous contributor, and botanical science 
an experienced and indefatigable worker. 
The Society has also to regret the death in England of Dr. T. Oldham, 
late Superintendent of the Geological Survey, who was on several occasions 
President of the Society. 
The Obituary further includes the names of Mr. A. Anderson, who had 
contributed several papers on Indian Ornithology to the Society’s Journal 
and other scientific periodicals, Mr. P. T. Carnegy, Mr. T. Chennell, Dr. 
E. J. Gayer, Mr. C. Heintze, Dr. Verchere, Ordinary Members; M. Garcin 
de Tassy and Dr. T. Thomson, Honorary Members, and Dr. H. Bleeker, 
Corresponding Member. 
