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D0MI1AY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



■Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



Skull of Indian Antelope. 

 A i nunbcr of Fish and Rep. 

 tiles. 



SI Birds'* Skius 



1 Monitor 



1 Civet Cat 



2 Panther Cubs (alive) ... 



]5 Pairs of Horns 



Several pairs of Horns 



5 Bird Skins 



1 Malabar Bed Squ'rrel 



(alivo) 

 A quantity of Shells, &c... 

 1 Jungle Cock"s Skin 

 1 Crocodile (ave) ... 

 A qnantity of Beptiles, &c. 

 1 Pioture in Oils ... 

 1 [ ndian Screech Owl 

 1 (alive). 



Female, with horns ... 

 From Baipur, C. P. ... 



From Saugor,C. P 



Varauus dracaana 

 Viverra malaccensi* 



Felis pardus .... 



Indian and African Antelopes 



African Antelopes ... 



From Pooaa ... 

 Sciurus malabaricus... 



From Malabar Coast 

 Oallua sonnerati 

 Crocodilus palustris 

 From Ahmedabad ... 



Strix javanioa 



Major J. H. Yule. 

 Mr. J. A. Betham. 



Lieut. H. E. Barnes. 



Mr. G. Rayment, A. V. D. 



Mr. Framji N uiabhai 



Davur. 

 Mr. E. H. Millard. 

 Brig.-Geul. La Touche. 

 Capt. H. Gr. E. Swaync, 



B. E. 

 Mr. A, Newnham. 

 Mr. P. J. FitzGibboa. 



Mr. Jas. Murray. 

 Mr. A. F. Pinhey. 

 Mr. C. M. Sykes. 

 Dr. Bobb. 

 Mr. S. Tytlcr. 

 Mrs. A. Medcalf. 



Minor Contributions from 



Mr. John Griffiths, Mr. Justice Parsons, Mr. F. Otto, Mr. D. Bennett, Mr. Eduljee 

 Davur, Captain Butler. Captain E. Masters, and Mr. Hewett. 



CONTRIBUTONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



" Wilson American Ornithology," 3 Vols., and ' f Life of Frank Bncklaad," from 

 Mr. A. Newnham. 



Exhibits. 



The attention of the members was drawn to the following exhibits : — 

 1 wild dog's head and 1 large tiger-cat's head, mounted by Mr. Stanley Tytlcr. 

 A collection of shells from Perim Island, by Dr. Banks. 



A photograph of the Talipot Palm {Corijpha umbracutifera), now in flower on 

 Malabar Hill, by the Hon. Mr. Justice Parsons. 



The following papers were then read : — 

 '•Bird Catching Spiders." (Note by Mr. A. W. Morris.) 



" Proposed English Nomenclature for Indian Butterflies." (Note ' by Mr. A. 

 Newnham, B. S. C.) 



'• Bccordcd Iustanees of Children having been Nourished by Wolves and Birds of 

 Prey," by Mr. Jivanji Jamsetji Modi. 



Mr. Modi quoted several somewhat similar cases, and referred to a number of 

 instances, in old classical literature, of children having been nourished by Wolves and 

 birds of prey. 



Dr. G. A. Maconachie, while proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Modi for his paper, 

 remarked that, there appeared to be undoubted evidence that in some cases children 

 had been suckled by wolves, but that the legendary accounts of birds of prey having 

 acted as foster-parents to human offspring were intcre^ing only from a literary 

 point of view and could not be relied upon. 



