PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY DURING THE QUARTER. 233 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



Aquantity of Corals, 

 Shell-fish, and 

 Radiata. 



A Goat 



A quantity of Sea-shells. 



1 Snake 



1 floopoo 



Specimen of Arraq and 



A ttar. 

 Specimens of Jasper 

 Pudding-stone. 



1 Hog deer .,,, 



A quantity of Geological 

 specimens. 



3 Japanese Fish (alive).... 



From Ceylon. 



From Africa 

 From Aden 



Dipsas gokool 



(Mounted in England).... 

 Made from the Pandanus 



odoratissimus. 

 From Banda 



Axis porcinus 



From the volcano on 

 Barren Island, Bay of 

 Bengal 



Mr. A. Newnham. 



Victoria Oardens. 

 Mr. J. D. Katelee. 

 Col. Walcott. 

 Capt. Miller. 

 Mr. Frank Hose. 



Do. 



victoria Gardens. 



Mr. F. J. Daley. 

 Revd. Fr. Dreckman. 



Minor Contributions. 

 From Mr. A. F. Turner, Mr. R. MacEwen, Mr. John Fleming, Mr. S. Hcdgart, 

 Miss Whitcombe, Mr. A. H. Follet, Mr. J. A. Guider, and Mr. John Dawson. 



Contributions to the Library. 



Paper on the Birds of Aden, by Major J. W. Yerbury, R. A» 



The Utilization of Minute Life, by Dr. T. L. Phipson. 



A Manual on the Diseases of the Elephant, by Mr. J. H. Steel. 



Exhibits. 



A Japanese Dwarf -tree, by Colonel "Walcott, and another by the Hon. 

 Mr. Justice Birdwood ; 1 Orchid (in flower) (Phaleonopsis rosea), by Mr. M. 

 C. Tamer ; a 4-horned Ram (from Arabia), by Mr. C. E. Kane ; 1 double 

 Cocoanut (from Seychelles Islands), by Mr. A. S. Panday. 



The Fungi of Bombay. 



Surgeon K. R. Kirtikar exhibited a few fresh fungi collected in and round 

 Bombay. The spores of the Bhopud or Lycoperdon or Puff-ball and Hydnum 

 aureatum were exhibited under the microscope, showing the extreme minuteness 

 of the spores of the latter as compared with the spores of the former. 

 Dr. Kirtikar observed that fungi form a very interesting form of plant-life, and, 

 though spoken of somewhat contemptuously as consisting of mushrooms and 

 toadstools, supply the student of Nature with an infatuating subject for 

 observation and amusement. It was a subject, he said, by no means easy of 

 Btudy in this country, especially as previous Indian botanists had paid no 

 special attention to the Cryptogams. Whatever the difficulties, fungi and the 

 other cryptogams, or flowerless plants, afford an interesting field, and would 

 amply repay any trouble that is taken in investigating this unexplored field 

 of some of the most interesting objects in nature. Places around Bombay at 

 this time of the year, when there is so much heat and moisture in the air and 

 in the ground, supply abundant materials for a thorough investigation of this 

 hitherto neglected department of botany. They are not mere toadstools all 



