152 Nomination of Honorary Members. [May, 
The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet, 
ing, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members— 
J. M. Muir, Esq., 0. S. A. Smidt, Esq. 
J. Schroder, Esq. C. J. Sheridan, Esq., C. E. 
Mr. A. H. Anthony and Babu Uday Chand Dutt have intimated their 
desire to withdraw from the Society. 
The Council reported that the following gentlemen had been nomina¬ 
ted by the Council for election as Honorary Members of the Society. 
Professor E. B. Cowell. Dr. J. Janssen. 
Professor Begnand. Dr. A. Gunther. 
Prof. H. Milne-Edwards. 
Professor Edward Bayles Cowell, d. c. l., Edinburgh, is recom¬ 
mended in. recognition of his services to the Society and to the cause of 
Sanskrit literature. He was elected a member of the Society on March 4th, 
1857, and held the office of Philological Secretary from 1858 to 1864 when 
he retired from the country. When he joined the Society he had already 
established his reputation as an oriental scholar by his dissertation on Per¬ 
sian Poetry, published in the “ Oxford Essays,” and by an edition of the 
Prakrit Grammar of Yararuchi with an English translation. During his 
stay in India he contributed several valuable papers to the Journal of the 
Societ} T . He likewise edited for the Society a volume of the Taittiriya 
Sanhita of the Black Yajur Veda, and published the texts along with Eng¬ 
lish translations of the Maitri Upanishad of the Black Yajur Veda. The 
Kaushitaki Brahmana Upanishad of the Rig Veda, and the Kusumanjali, an 
abstruse treatise on the Hindu arguments for and against the existence of 
the Deity. Since his retirement his interest in the labours of the Society 
has remained unchanged, and he has contributed largely to the elucidation 
of many intricate questions connected with the history of Sanskrit litera¬ 
ture. He has published a volume in continuation of the late Dr. H. H. 
Wilson’s translation of the Rig Veda Sanhita, an epitome of the several 
philosophical dogmas of ancient India, being a translation of the Sarvadar- 
sana Sangraha, and the text along with an English translation of the 
Aphorisms of Sandilya on the Hindu doctrine of faith. As a Sanskrit scholar 
he ranks with the foremost orientalists of Europe. 
Professor Renaud is recommended in appreciation of the great services 
he has rendered to the cause of Semitic learning by his numerous disserta¬ 
tions on the literature of the Arabs, and by his researches into the Geogra¬ 
phy of Asia as known to the Arabs, and in recognition of the distinguished 
position he holds as an eminent Arabic scholar. 
Albert Gunther, m. d., ph. d., v. p. h. s., Keeper of the Depart¬ 
ment of Zoology in the British Museum, has chiefly devoted himself to the 
