ANNUAL REPORT.

1952

'L'he Annual General Meeting terminating the year 1951 was

held on Monday, lOth Mat•ch 1952 at the Society's Home, 60 Asoka

Road, Bangkapi, with the President, His Highness Prince Dhani

Nivat, Kromamnn Bidyalabh, in the Chair,

'l'he Council for 1952 \vas elected as follows :

H.H. Prince Dhani Nivat,

Kromamun Biclyalabh

H.H. Pdnce Pt•em Pnrnchatra

H.E. Chao Phya Sri Dharmadhibes

Mom Chao Ajavaclis Disknl

H.G. l!,randsen

Miss Mary Anglemyer

Rolland H. Bnshner

Pt•eshlent,

Senior Vice-President,,

Vice-Prel:liclen t,

Honorary, Recretary,

Honorat•y •rreasnrer,

Honorary Librarian,

Honorat·y Editor of the

.Jonrnal,

Dr. Robert L. Pendleton Leader of the Natural

Histot•y Section,

Mom Rajawongs Snmonnjati Swasdiknl Lnader of t.he Travel

.Ariyant Manjilml,

Mom Luang Pin Maluknl, M,A,,

Dr. Chaloem Pmnnananda, M.D.,

Phyn Annwat Wanarn1{s,

Phya .Arthaluwiya Nibond,

I. nang J amni. Kolnkarn,

J. J. Boeles,

Phya Anuman Rajn,clhon,

H.E. Mt~. Eel win F. St,anton,

Dr. Joseph S. Gonltli

Lnang Cbakrapani,

N. Geelmuyden.

Section,

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The new Council upon taking office appoint.ed the following

standing committees :

Finance: H.I-I. Pt·ince Prem Pnrachatra, Senior Vice-

Editorial:

Exchange:

President, Cb ai1·man,

The Honorary Secretary,

The Honorary Treasurer.

'l1he Honorary Editor of the Journal

(Mr. R.H. Bnshne1·), Cbail'man,

'l'he Leader of the Natural Histfn•y Section,

H.H. Prince Dhani Nivat., Kromanmn

Bicly alabh,

H.H. P1·ince Prem Pnrachatra,

M.R. Snmouajati Swasdikul,

Mr. ,J. J. Boeles,

Mr. Richard Coughlin.

Mr. Nicolai Geelmuyden, Chairman,

Miss Mary Anglemyc•r,

M1·. H.H. Bnshner.

Mr. Rolland H. Bnshner, Honorary Editor of the .Journal,

had to resign from the Council in Jnly 1952 on necnnnt of his

transfe1· to nnothPr post abronrl and the Society thel'C~hy lost an

energetic member not Oldy from the Council bnt also from the

Society which was much regretted. 'l'he Society, however, was

fortunate enough to secure the service of M1•. A.H.K. Mackenzie of

tho Bl'itish Embassy who inspite o.r: his official duties undertook to

take over the posHion of the Honorary Editor of the JourlHtl.

In the course of t.he yeal' Dr. B.oherl~ L. Pendletm1 had to resign

from the Council and the leadership of the Natural History Section

owing to his approaching departure from Siam. 'rhe Ommcil dncided

that, in view of the wide 1·ange of its activities which included the

issning of an annual Bulletin, a committee he set up'to carry ont

such lluties. The following accepted membership of that oommittee:

Mr. Suldch Nimmanhemin, uew Leaden· of the Natural History

Section.

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1-h. Al'iyant Manjiknl,

Mr. N ieolai Geelmnydell,

Dr. Chaloem Pmanananda, M.D. ,

Phya Annwat; Wanaraks,

Mom Rajawongs Ohahthong 'l'hongyni.

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rr'his Commttteo has duly met to draw np its progratnm€' of

activities.

'l'he Council has also taken into careful considel'ftl;ion t.he fact

that the fihiet.h anniversary of the Society's founding on the lOt.h of

March 1904 will be falling duo next yeal'. One of the proposals for

such an observance is the possibility of reprinting in one volume

some of the materials in earlier numbers tlf thE> .Journal of the

SocietJ'• much of which has become unavailable ~tlthongh continual

demands are being made. A Committee of p1·esent and past editors

of the Journal was appoinLed to study this possibi]it~r. 'l'here may

he also some form o[ social celebration on that date.

During the year 1952, library statisties were as follows:

Visitors (approximately) 300

Circulation

Books recehecl

J·ouruals received

154:

668 180

'I'hn greatest portions of the~ hooks we1•e a gift by Lady Indi'tt

Montri from the !?State of the late Phya Inch·a Montri, ex-President

of the Society. 'l'hese bonks are extremely valuable additions to the

liln·ary.

Exchange of publications with other learned instit.uticms has

co11siderably increased. The. main object of the Exchange Qommittee's

work during the .year under review has been to b1•oaclen tho Society's

fielcl of. exchanges and pa1•tly to resume connections which were inter­

rupted during t,he last war. As. a result the number of cnltm•a.l and

scientific, institntici11s on the Society's exchange l~i.st has risen

from 20 to 26 in respect of the .Journal ancl h•om 18 to 22 ·for the

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Natural History Bulletin. Several oi' !;he institnt.ions in qnostioil

lacked some of the numbers of the .Tonwal issued dnl'ing the wm·

years, and these collections have been completed.

'l'he Committee has also taken npon itself to boost the snle o:l'

back numbers of the ,Tournai, the Natmal Hist.ory Bulletin and the

Florae Siamensis Enumeratio. As ~t result some 20 , 000 baht:s have

been realised from sales during the last 15 months, and judging by

the interest shown more orders will be forthcoming in the nem•

future. A large number of the earliest issues of' the .Journal are

now unfortunately out of print, but interesting selections can still be

ma<le. 'fhose interested in obtaining a selection should, however,

decide now as the mOJie valuable numbers are fast disappearing. To

facilitate the work, the gallery in the SoC-iety's Home has been pnt

in order nncl ne'v cupboards for the preservation of back numbers

have been pnt in. 'fhe gallery is now also mHthle as a stncly l'oom

if desired.

In November 1952 a new scheme to popnlarise the NaLural

History Bulletin was proposed by the Exchange Oommitcc and sanc­

tioned by the Council. As there is little or no material within the

scope of the Society's activities in the Natural History publications

in other parts of the world, it has been difficnlt to establish exchange

connections for the Bulletin. 'l'he scheme in qnestion consists of

findil;lg scientific institutions whose publications a1~e of interest for

g~ne1•al studies of Natural HistOl'Y subjects and obtaining thes13

pubHcatio~s in exchange for the Society's Bulletin. The publications

received are then turned over to the Library of the Ohulalongkorn

University or the Science Society, thus furnishing them with valuable

inatel'inls they wonld othe1•wise not be able to obtain, at the same

tim.e . widening the :field of om Bulletin. 'J'ho execution of this

scheme' is made feasible by the fact that the Society has roughly

fift.y complete sets of the Bulletin on hand, and can well affot•d to

make these exchanges. InCl·easing the number of .the Bnlletln's

readers in this way. will also Jacilitate obtaininig m:atel'ials for the

Bulletin which hitherto hns not been easy. As a result of this

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schomu now cunnoctions have IJoen establitlhcd in Scmndinavia, Oontral

Emopc~ tm<l South America, Correspondence with other connt.l'ies is Pt'nc:ceding.

The Council held eleven business meetings dtwing the year:

eight IJlectings were held at t.he Presid.c'llt's house in Pechaburi Road and thece meetings were held at the Society's Home in Bangkapi.

At the end of the year the Society's membership was as follows : Honorat•y 13

Corresponding 10

Free 3

Life

Ordinary 34

422

making ~1 total of 482 as compared with 475 in 1951, 443 in 1950,

364 in 1949, 343 in 1948, 292 in 1947, 207 in 1946 and 160 in 1945.

The Society acqni1·ed several new members during the year but tho increase was somewhat nffset by a great number of members depar­

ting from this country for good. Still the number of members

in 1952 is t;he highest on record.

Tho financial po~ition of the Soeiety continues to Le satisfactory,

showing an excess of receipts over expenditure by Baht 7, 519. 84 inspite of thef:act that the Soci~ty spent Baht 21,752. 7 5 out of its

revenue for i~sning fom: publications in 1952, namely J.S.S. Volume B9, Part 2 (January 1952); J.S.S. Volume 40, Part 1 (July 1952);

J.S.S. Volurno 40, Part 2 ( Decem her 1952) and Natural History Bulletin, Volume 15, Part 1 (September 1952).

The Society ananged the following meetings during the year,

also a record year for the number b:f its meetings :

Ordinary General Meetings:

On 17th March 1952 : Pmfesso1· Ganga Pl'asad · Upndhy~tya,

General Secretary, International Aryan League of Delhi, who was 'awarded Amritdha1;a Prize on

" Vedic Cnltnre" in 1950, lectured on:

'l'Im SPIRI'l'UAL ASPJlJOT OF rJ.'IIE VEDA •

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On 7Lh June 1952: Phya Annrnan Rajadhon, formet• Diroclnr.

General of the Department of Fine Arts, lectnretl in

the compound of the Chapel Royal of the Emerald

Buddha on:

'l'HF; CONS'l'RUCTION OF A CHEDI (S'l'Ul1A).

On 21st July 1952: Sw.ami Ajarananda, I~ectnrer in Sanskrit,

ChulaJongkorn University, lectured on :

BUDDHISM- rrH~J :B'ULl!'ILMEN'l' OF HINDUISM.

On 6t.h August 195:~: Sri Yogi Suddhananda Bhal.·ati of lectured

on:

INDIAN 'l'HOUGH'l'.

On Hth August 1952: Professor Silpa Bhirasri ( C . Feroci)

of the Department of Fine Arts, lectm•ad on:

OLD THAI 'l'RADirl'IONAL PAINTINGS.

On 27th Augtl.St 1.952 : Chief Justice Robert Simmons of the

Supreme Comt of Nebraska, U.S.A. lectmed on :

'l'I-IE MODJlJRN TREND IN AMERIOAN CRIMINAL LAW.

On 16th September 1952: Professor D.G.E. HaU, D.Lit,t,, ,

Professor of History, Head of the Department of

Southeast Asia, School of Oriental and African Stnclies, Unive:t:'sHy of London, leclured on:

FROM MERGUl '1'0 SINGAPORI~ in 1686 - 1819.

On 17th October 1952: Profesl;lor B.L, Atreya, D. Litt.,

of the Benares Hindu University in Indiu, letured on:

IMPRESSIONS OJ!' rl'HE BUDDI-IIS'r OONJ!'ERENCE OF TOKYO.

On 12th Noverubet• 1952: Luang Chakrapani of the Civil Court,

~fh!-iatry of Justice, gave an exhibition of films from

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On 27th November 1952: 'l'he Society arranged for an exhibi­

tion of the Khon (masked play) depicting the episode

of I-Iannman the Vohmteer at, the Silpakorn Theatre.

'l'he Pt•esident made a brief introduction. A running

commentary in English on the play w.ns also made

through the medium of a lo11d speaker.

On Bnl December 1952 : I-I.E. Monsieur Nguyen-Khoa-'foan,

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of

Vietnam, lectured on :

LE NAM-GIAO, SES Rl'fES E'l' SA SIGNIFICA.'riON.

On 14Lh .January 1953: Mt'. Cecil Hobbs, Chief oE the

OL'ientalia Division, Lil>rat•y of Congress,

Washington D.C. , U.S.A. lectured on:

THE MA'rRIAHCHAL SYS'rEM IN l~ARLY

BURMESI~ HISTORY.

On 20th Junuary 1953: Mr. Anthony Olnistie, Lecturer in

Archaeology in the school of Oriental anrl African

Studies, University of London, lectured on :

SOME PROPOSALS l<'OR ARCHAEOLOGTOAJJ

RESEARCH IN 80UTHEAS'l' ASIA.

Natural History Section's Meetings: On 2oth September 1952; Dr. Shao Wen Ling, :Fisheries

Expert of the F AO, lectured on :

'l'ILAPIA FISH . A NEW PIWMISING FISHERIES

INDUS'rRY FOR THAILAND.

On 3t•rl October 1952 : Dr. Cecil Milos, E'isheries Expert of

the E'AO, lectured on :

'.rliBJ ADAP'fA'l'ION OF FISHES '1'0 TH.EIH

ENVIBONMENT.

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Travel Section's Meetings:

On lOth A.ugust 1952: Ex:cmf:lion to WA1' MANGKOHN

KAMALA VAS, premier Ohinese monastery in

Bangkok.

On 17th August 1952: Excmsion to \VAT SUV ARNAHAM,

Dhonburi, to see old Thai traditional paintings on

the walls in the but.

On 2nd November 1952: Excursion by M/S DHANI to witness

Loy Krathong ancl Water Fireworks Display.

On 22nd J!'ebruary 1953: Excursion to WAT SUTHAS, Bangkok.

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Property and Sundry Assets of the slam Society

as at 31st December 1952

B rai Land ns per title deed No. 3458, book 33, page !iR

1 Brick Building situated on above lanrl

30 pes hook-cases with glass panels

2 pes book-cases with glass/wooden panels

G pes wooden cabinets

1 pee wrHing desk with hook Bhelves

2 pes w1·iting desks

1 pee desk

1 pee meeting table

1 pee tahle

4 pes wooden elmirs w/arms & back

25 pes wooden chairs w/hack

100 pcK rattan chairs

1 pee black-board

1 peP document chest.

9 pcB coiling fans

)20 peR eniling & wall lamps

4 pes tablo lampB

1 peo duplicating machine

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THE SIAM FINANCIAL RESUME OF

Receipts Subscriptions:

Ordhmry Mcmllcrs, cmrent year 2fi,450.00

Ordinary Momborl:!, overdue accounts . . . 425.00

Life Members 2,000.00 Baht 28,R75.00

Sale of Publications: 'rhe .Jonrnal

'I' he N atnml History Bulletin

Florae Siamonsis Ennmoratio

The Mon Dictionat·y ...

·Sundry Publications

Sundry Receipts: Bank Intc1rest

13,100.00

1,528.00

2,,132.18

95.00

ao.oo Baht 17 ,l8fdt)

Baht 1.041.79 Consignment a/c (Otto Han·asowitz, Leipzig)

written ufl' Baht ()71.10

Baht 47,773.07

Bangkok, 26th February 1953.

H.G. Frandsen H onora1·y Treasurer

SOCIETY THE YEAR 1952

Home's Maintenance: Salary to Caretaker

Expenditure

'Fire Insurance ( insnrucl value: 500,000) ]lJlectricity Snpply Water Supply White Ants Control

1,200.00 1,420.47

85.60

34.00 250.00

7,020.00 Purehnse & Mnintenanco of Fnrnitnre ... Miscollaneous Expenses 483.00 Baht 10,493.07

Library:

SnlatT to Librnry Clerks 960.00 Fire Insurance ( imnnec1 value: 100.000) i318.85

Binding of Bonks 120.00

Miscelhneons Expenses 221.46 Baht 1,620.37

Secretarial & Editorial :

Stationnry & Office Supplies 3,103.50

Postage & Delivery Ext1onses 1,4,54.05 Revenue Stamps 2il6.45

Expenses for Lectures & Exhibitions... 797.00

Printing of Publications including loss on cnncolling order for new eclition of the Coin ago of Siam 21,7 52.7 fi

Miscellaneous lDxpenses 125.00 Baht 27,468.75

Account of Otto Harrasowitz, Leipzig, written off Excess of Receipts over Expenditure

Baht 671.10 Baht 7,519.84

Baht 47,773.07

Examined and found to agree with the books anr1 vouchers Phra Banijya Sara Vides

Honorcwy Awlit01·

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Creditors: SulJScriptions prepaid

Reserves: General Reserve

Heserve for Hepairs

Liabilities

Reserve for Book Purchases

Heserve for further printing nf ]'lorao

Siamensis Ennmeratio

H.eserve for Excursions :

balance as at 31/12/1951

excess of recei1its over expendit.nre

THE SIAM Balance Sheet as at

8,509.40

5,929.2fi

:3,141.82

1,655.00

Baht 1,550.00

3H7.B7

on excursions dnr!ng 1952 ... 1,031.50 1,aGH.87 Baht 20,604.35

Surplus: Balance lJrOllght forward from last year 21.576.51

Excess of receipts over expenditure in1952 7 ,519.1:5·1 Baht 29,096.35

Baht 51,2fl0. 70

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Banalcolc, 26th FebntM'1J 1058

H. G. Frandsen Honorary 'J'rea..sur·er

SOCIETY 31st December 1952

Assets

Cash and Banks: Cash in hand

'l'he Siam Commercial Bank Ltd:

current account

'.rho Bank for Co-operatives:

fixed deposit

Debtors: Orientalia Inc., New York:

us. $ 60.45 @ 20/00

less adjustment of

r~xchange rate 20/00-lG/75

Sundry Debtorf:\

'1,054.15

45,000.00 Bnht 119,i\Hf>,4.0

1,209.00

19\\.4() 1,012.54

852.7G Baht. 1,8G5.ao

Baht 5U250.70

Examined and found to agrne with the books and vouchers.

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Phra Banijya Sara Vides II onom?'1J Auditol'