1 70 SHAH ZADA ZEHYA
2 | Shah Zada Yehya, one of the Saddozai
3 family; who was settled at. Kabul, having been
4 of April, 1844, gives an interesting account of his services
5 and death :—
6 “ Asiatic Socrery.
7 “March 20.
8 ‘¢ Professor Wrison in the Chair.
9 ‘The honorary Secretary read a Memoir of the late Dr.
10 Lord, whose early death in the late Afghan struggle has
11 been equally lamented by his friends, and regretted.by the
12 service to which he belonged, and where his talents were
13 so beneficially exerted. The writer of the Memoir, Dr.
14 Taylor, a member of the Society, who was an early and’
15 intimate friend of Dr. Lord, states that that gentleman,
16 during his journeys in Central ‘Asia, had made a regular
17 series of valuable observations, which it was his intention
18 ‘to send to the Royal Asiatic Society for publication at the
19 close of the war; and it is hoped that they may yet be
20 recovered. ‘The particulars of Dr. Lord’s early life, and
21 his. connexion with the ‘ Athenzeum,’ were given in our
22 hasty tribute to his memory (No. 689). In the latter part
23 of the year 1836, Dr. Lord sailed for India as assistant
24 surgeon in the service of the East India Company, and
25 arrived at Bombay in June, 1837. He was soon after ap-
26 pointed to the Native cavalry in Gujrat; and, when
27 there, was selected to proceed to a district beyond the
28 British frontier, where the plague was raging, in order to
29 report on the disease. He had actually departed on his
30 mission when he was recalled, in order to go to Kabul, as
31 surgeon to the embassy, which was about to set out under
32 Sir Alexander Burnes. At Kabul he won the friendship