280 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



Teratologioal Evidence as to the Heredity of Acquired Conditions (Windle), from 

 author. 



Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, in exchange. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LIX., Nos. 4 and 5, in exchange. 



The Victorian Naturalist, Nos. 11 and 12, in exchange. 



The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XXIII., in exchange. 



Catalogue of the Ferns in the Herbarium of the Government of India at Saharan- 

 pur, from J. F. Duthie. 



Pharmacographia Indica, Part IV., from Dr Dymock. 



Memoirs do la Socie r e Zoolo^ique de France, pour 1890, in exchange. 



Proceedings of the Linnseau Society of New South Wales, Vol. V., Part 3, in 

 exchange. 



Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1890-91, in 

 exchange. 



Several large photographs of animals, from Mr. G. W. Terry. 



EXHIBITS. 



A Large collection of beautifully-executed sketches illustrative of the rarer birds 

 found in North Cachar, by Mr. E. C. S. Baker, were exhibited and greatly admired. 

 The Honorary Secretary stated that it was proposed to reproduce many of the plates 

 in the Society's Journal, and that he hoped Mr. Baker, who was an excellent orni- 

 thologist, would contribute a series of papers in the birds of that region. 



Mr. E L. Barton also exhibited a tiger's head and two bear' heads mounted by 

 himself, which attracted much attention. 



SUBSTANCES USED AS INCENSE IN THE EAST. 



Dr. Dymock then read an exceedingly interesting paper on this subject, 

 illustrating his remarks with specimens of Frankincense, Aloe or Eagle Wood, 

 Benzoin or Benjamin, Ustnrak, Storax, Ammoniacum root (the Boi of the Parsees), 

 Costus or Kust, Sandalwood, Common Camphor, Borneo Camphor (Baras), Cinnamon, 

 Cassia, Deodar Wood, Dhupa, Himalayan Juniper, Himalayan Cypress, Morina 

 coulteriana, Myrrh, Bdellium, Rala (or Dbnua), Sambrani, Vateria indica, Gokal 

 dhup, Galbanum, and many others. The lecture will be printed in full in tha 

 Society's Journal. 



The following papers were also read (in whole or part) at the meeting :— Donm 

 Palms in India, by G. Carstensen ; the Butterflies of the Central Provinces 

 (continued), by J. A. Betham ; Description of a Rare Fungus, by Dr. K. R. Kirtikar ; 

 Note on Dalbergia Spinosa, by Dr. D. G. Dalgado ; Leaf Weevils, by Major C. A. R. 

 Sage ; and the Temerity of Rats, by Capt. R. Light, all of which will be published 

 in due cource in tho Proceedings of the Society. 



