PROCEEDINGS. 



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a gTeat deal more about the life history of butterflies, as many keen observers of 

 nature would send notes and observations, who now omit to do so, as, not knowing 

 the scientific name, they are at a loss to distinguish the butterfly of which they 

 wish to speak. 



What I would suggest then, is that various well known lepid'pterists should be 

 written to with a request to send a list of suggested names to be laid before a 

 Committee of our Society, who would accept the ones which seemed to them the 

 most appropriate. A list of names so selected might then ba printed and circu- 

 lated for information to various Natural History Societies. 



Of course, I do not for an instant suppose that these names 'will be accepted 

 generally at onoe, or that it is an easy matter to name such a mass of butterflies ; 

 but at any rate it would be a beginning, and I think our Society might fairly claim 

 to have done good service in the cause of Indian entomology if we caused a stand- 

 ard list of English names to be published. 



A. NEWNHAM, 



Bombay S. C 

 Toona, 23rd March 1889. 





PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Pkoceedings of the Meeting hexd on 16th January 1838, 



The usual monthly meeting of the members of this Society was held on Wednesday 

 the lfith January, Dr. D. MacDonald presiding : — 



The following new members were elected :— Mr. Srimant Hanmantrao Gopalrao 

 (Sai Lashkar Saheb Bahadur), Dr. Eduljee Nusserwanjee, Captain J. F. C. Thatcher, 

 Mr. E. 0. S. Baker, Mr. C. F. Elliott, Mr. Ed. Wimbridge, Mr. Cursetjee N. Servai, 

 Mr. H. L. Harvey, C.S., Lord Colin Campbell, Mr. P. R. Wilson, Mr. R. N. Mant, 

 and Colonel Merriman. 



Mr. H. M. Phipson, the Honorary Secretary, then acknowledged the following 

 contributions to the Society's collections : — 



Contributions during December. 



Minor Contributions. — From Captain Shopland, Mr. M. P. Misquita, Mr. E. Beynon, 

 and Mr. W, R. Hamilton. 



