The London philatelist by Royal Philatelic Society (Great Britain)

Author:Royal Philatelic Society (Great Britain)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Stamp collecting, Stamp collectors, Postage stamps
Publisher: London : The Royal Philatelic Society
Published: 1892-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

PHILATELIC SOCIETIES' MEETINGS. THE PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.

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The Philatelic Society of Bengal was constituted on the 19th February, 1894, and its seventeenth meeting took place in Calcutta on 17th April, 1S95. The membership roll now contains the names of fifty - seven collectors. The Society was fortunate in securing as its first President I\Ir. G. J. Hynes, Deputy-Director-General of the Post-office of India, who resigned in the course of a few months on his retirement to England. The meeting-place of the members has hitherto been chiefly at the Adelphi Hotel. Negotiations are, however, in progress for the provision of more satisfactory headquarters, and it is hoped before long that the Society will be the possessor of permanent rooms of its own. It is proposed to form a Philatelic library for the use of members, to which publishers of Philatelic works are respectfully invited to contribute. Since the Society's formation all the meetings have been of an interesting character, the most notable being those at which papers have been read by Mr. C. F. Larmour on the " Stamps of Portuguese India," by Mr. G. J. Hynes on the "Indian issues of 1854 printed in India," and by Mr. C. F. Larmour on the " Stamps of New South Wales." The monthly official organ of the Society, The Philatelic World, published by Mr. B. Gordon Jones, and edited by Mr. C. F. Larmour and Mr. Wilmot Corfield, reached its tenth number in April, 1S95, and is firmly estalished as a high-class Philatelic journal.

The Society's first public exhibition of postage stamps was held in the Fine Arts Annexe of the Imperial Museum, Chowring-hee Road, on 26th and 27th December, 1894, and proved a decided success. Among the visitors were His Honour the Lieut.-Governor of Bengal and Lady Elliott, and H.H. the Maharajah of Kapurthala, and it is more than probable that it will prove to be the first of an annual series of similar exhibitions which will equally succeed in winning the admiration of both the Philatelic and non-Philatelic public in Calcutta and the East generally.

We append a complete list of officers and members of the Philatelic Society of Bengal on iSth April, 1895, after elimination of those whose membership has ceased owiuCT to resignation and other causes.

President. —C Stewart-Wilson, Esq., c.s.

^Deputy Director-General 0/ t/ie Post Office 0/ India.)

Vice-President. — Alfred A. Lvall, Esq.

Hon. Secretary. —E. Berthond, Esq.,

I, Wood Street, Calcutta.

Major Anderson.

G. Lane Anderson.

R. Bignell.

W. M. Briggs.

W. W. Bryant.

Major P. A. Buckland.

G. G. Burnell.

Wilmot Corfield.

J. Cornwall.

E. A. Doran.

A. S. Gladstone.

E. Gohner.

Dr. E. FowlerGreenhill.

Walter Gregory.

E. S. Gubbay.

H. Holmwood, c.s. G. J. Hynes. J. Jackson. Lieut. C. Kaye. R. D. Kedslie. P. J. Lancaster. C. F. Larmour.

F. A. Larmour. J. H. Lewes.

Lieut. T. H. Madden. C. D. Mangos. M. Manasseh.

L. S. Mazza. M. Mazza.

D. F. Minghis. Goodwin Norman. Captain J. G. Olifent. T. B. J. Overend.

M. Palomba.

E. W. S. Russell. Miss Sandel.

Dr. R. S. Sanders. J. O'B. Saunders. A. Schauenburg. Walter Schenck.

F. N. Schiller. A. Shrager.

P. A. Simpson. A. Simson.

F. Stiefelhagen. C. J. Stavridi.

G. J.

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