PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. Asiatic Researches, Vols. I-XX and Index, 1788-1839. Journal, Vols. 1-73, 1832-1904. Journal and Proceedings [N. 8.], Vol. 1, etc., 1905, etc. Bibliotheca Indica, 1848, etc. A complete list of publications sold by the Society can be obtained by application to the Honorary Secretary, 57, Park Street, Calcutta. PRIVILEGES OF ORDINARY MEMBERS. (a) To be present and vote at all General Meetings, which are held on the first Wednesday in each month except in September and October. (b) To propose and second candidates for Ordinary Membership. (c) To introduce visitors at the Ordinary General Meetings (d) To have personal access to the Library and other public (f) To receive gratis, copies of the Journal and Proceedings (g) To fill any office in the Society on being duly elected thereto. List of Officers and Members of Council OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL For the year 1909. President: Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.I.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.G.S. Vice-Presidents: The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, M.A., D.L., F.R.S.E. G. Thibaut, Esq., Ph.D., C.I.E. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, M.A. Lieut.-Colonel F. J. Drury, M.B., I.M.S. Secretary and Treasurer: General Secretary:-G. H. Tipper, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. Additional Secretaries: Philological Secretary:-E. D. Ross, Esq., Ph.D. C.M.Z.S. Joint Philological Secretary:-Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhuṣaṇa, M.A., Ph.D., M.R.A.S. Medical Secretary:-Major L. Rogers, M.D., B.Sc., I.M.S. Numismatic Secretary:-H. N. Wright, Esq., I.C.S. Other Members of Council: Harinath De, Esq., M.A. J. A. Cunningham, Esq., B.A.. H. G. Graves, Esq. Babu Monmohan Chakravarti, M.A., B.L. Abdulla al-Mamun Suhrawardy, Esq., M.A., LL.D. The Hon. Mr. Justice H. Holmwood, I.C.S. Sotheron 4-25-35 JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. VOL. LXXIV., PART II.-Extra Number, 1908. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.-By SIR GEORGE No. 21. THIS Part contains two Families, No. 86 Gesneracea and No. 90 Verbenacea, and completes the account of the Gamopetala. The account of the Gesneracea was prepared by Mr. H. N. Ridley, F.R.S., Director of the Botanic Garden at Singapore, and was published in the 'Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1905.' The material used by him was that of the Herbaria of Singapore and Penang, together with that belonging to the Royal Botanic Garden of Calcutta, and chiefly got together by collectors employed by Sir George King, lent to Mr. Ridley for the purpose. The account in the 'Straits Journal' not being quite in the form used in the 'Materials,' published under the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, has been edited by Mr. Gamble, with the kind help of Lt.-Col. Prain, of Kew, but he has been careful to make no more formal alterations than could be helped; so that the work is one for which Mr. Ridley alone is responsible. Only numbers personally verified or quoted by Mr. Ridley have been entered under the different species. Mr. Ridley, who has sanctioned what has been done, has himself furnished a few notes and additions, among them being descriptions of 3 new species, one of them the representative of a new genus. The number of species of Gesneracea herein described is 131, belonging to 20 genera, 1 genus and 2 species being new, besides. 1 Sumatran species newly described. |