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XIII.— PRICE OP TIGERS' SKINS, Etc. IN ENGLAND. 



WHEN in England quite recently I went several times to Rowland Ward's 

 shop in Piccadilly. They told me that they had just given the largest price 

 that had ever been paid for a tiger's skin. It was a skin from Manchooria 

 measuring over 13 feet, with thick deep wool on it like a bear. The price paid 

 was £63, and the skin was not set up. I did not see this skin, but I saw and 

 measured one in the shop which also came from Manchooria ; it measured 

 13' 4" and had deep fur, more like the snow-leopard than any other animal I 

 know. There was no ballet mark on it ; and I was told that all the skins 

 obtained from those parts are those of animals which had been poisoned. 

 They had also in the shop two boars' heads which had come from Siberia ; they 

 were immense — bigger than those of any Indian boar. They Vere probably 

 Sus acrofa and not our Indian species. The tusks were very thick, but I 

 do not suppose the best out of the two pairs was 8". 



I was rather disappointed at the heads of Mr. Littledale's Ovis Poll in the 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington. He has about eight animals set 

 up, but the biggest ram is not so large, I should fancy, as the head in our 

 Society's collection. They told me also in Rowland's that they had had several 

 Ovis' heads larger than Mr. Littledale's. 



W. St. JOHN RICHARDSON, Captain. 

 Poona, July, 1891. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Proceedings of the Meeting on IsL July, 1891. 



The usual monthly meeting of the members of this Society took place on Wednes- 

 day last, the 1st July, when Mr. W. E. Hart presided. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society : — Mr. W. C. Taylor 

 (Orissa), Mr. J. Moray-Brown (England), Lient. H. Wells-Coles (Bombay), Mr. P. H. 

 Clutteibnck (Chanda), Mr. C. B. LaTouche (Bombay), Mr. M. D. Mackenzie, C. S 

 (Kurracb.ee), Surgeon-Major G. H. Gimlette (Sutna), Mr. F. E. Fletcher (Tellicherry). 

 Lieut. G. Rippou^U pper Chindwin), Mr. E. Fulton, Bombay C. S. (Rangoon), Mr- 

 Frank Chalk (Bombay), Dr. E. J. Lawder (Hyderabad), Dr. F. C. Barker (Rajkote) 

 Lieut. S. H. Westropp (Bombay), Lieut. J. G. Westropp (Kolhapur), Major A. C. 

 Bailward, R. A. (Bombay), Mr. Charles Maries (Gwalior), Mr. W. Robarts Hamilton 

 (Bombay), Mr. R. T. Gibbs (Jhansi), Mr. R. A. Jenkins (Bombay), Dr. Govindrao 

 Bhav Prabhakar (Bombay), and Lieut. C. D. Lester (Berbera). 



