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PKOCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON 28th NOVEMBER 1918. 



A meeting of members of the Bombay Natural History Society, and their 

 friends, took place on Thursday, the 28th November 1918, Mr. John 

 AVallace presiding. The election of the following 22 members since the 

 last meeting was announced : — 



Lt. A. G. McArthur, I.A.R.O., Dadar, Bombay ; Mr. T. E. Love, Quilon ; 

 Mr. R. Senior- White, F.E.S., Ceylon ; The Curator, Central Museum, 

 Nagpur ; the Principal, Belgachia Medical College, Calcutta ; Major C. H. 

 Browne, Madras ; Assistant Surgeon H. Vincent, Poona ; Mr. W. Y. 

 Austin, Kaira ; Mr. V. K. Namjoshi, Cambay ; the Judicial Secretary to 

 Government, U. P., Allahabad ; Capt. R. Y. Anderson-Morshead, Trimul- 

 gherry ; De Directeur, van Het Algemeen Proefstation, Medan, Sumatra ; 

 Mrs. H. A. Marshall, Travancore ; Mr. A. L. Sheather, Muktesar, U. P. ; 

 Mr. A. A. Graham, Mussoorie ; Lt.-Col. J. H. V. Barr, Bandar Abbas ; 

 Major R. C. Burke, Simla; Miss R. H. Western, Palampur, Punjab: 

 Lt.-Col. the Nawab Sir Afsurul-Mulk Bahadur, A.D.C., K.C.I.E., M.V.O., 

 Hyderabad, Deccan ; Mr. H. C. Barnes, I.C.S., Naga Hills ; Mr. Jamshed 



Vesugar, Rawalpindi ; Lt.-Col. G. 

 Muirhead, Anandi West. 



The following contributions to the Museum 

 meeting : — 



R. Row, I. A., Calcutta, 



and 2-Lt. J. M. 



were received sinee the last 



Contribution . 



Locality'. 



Donor. 



1 Fresh water shrimp 



1 Bear Skull 



5 Eggs of white tailed plover 



(C. gregaria.) 

 1 Egg of Common Coot {Fulica 



atra.) 



1 Tiat Snake Z. inueosus . . ") 



1 BufF striped Keel back, Tropi 



donotus stolatus. 



1 Eryx 



1 Russels Earth Snake {Eryx \ 



conicus.) I 



1 Eel Fish J 



1 Dryophis jyerrotteti 



1 C. calca>'atus 



1 Egg of Malabar Trogon ( Tra- 



gon fasciatus.) 

 5 Marmot skins . . 

 1 Young Star Turtle ( T. elegans) 



(alive.) 

 1 Lizard {Agaura sp) 

 9 Birds, 1 Bat, 1 Shrew, Jave- ") 



lin Sandboa {E.jaculus) J 

 35 Birds' Eggs, 4 Snakes, 4^ 



Bats, 1 Lizard, 7 Scorpions, \ 



1 Centipede. 2 Spiders j 



Dinapur, Bihar . 

 Kohima, Assam . 



Museigil, Mesopo- 

 tamia. 



Bassein, Bombay, 



Capt. A. S. Brooke. 

 Mr. J. H. Hutton. 



Lt. T. R. Livesey. 



Mr. A. P. Kinloch. 



