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PROCEEDINGS 

 OF THE MEETING HELD ON 21st JANUARY 1904. 



A meeting of the members of the Bombay Natural History Society was held 

 at the Society's Rooms on Thursday, the 21st January 1904, Dr. A. H. Deane 

 presiding. 



The Honorary Secretary stated that His Excellency Lord Lamington, the 

 ■Governor of Bombay, had kindly agreed to become President of the Society. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The election of the following new members was announced : — Mr. C. E. Scovell, 

 C.E. (Loilem, S. Shan States, Burma) ; Captain B. F. R. Holbrooke (Poona) ; 

 Mr. Philip Tinne, I.F.S. (Darjeeling) ; Mr. R. F. Stoney (Madura, S. I.) ; 

 Captain T. E. Watson, I.M.S. (Madura, S. I.) • Mr. A. W. Hardy (Talup, 

 Assam) ; Mr. Coleridge Beadon, F.G.S. (Oorgaum, S. I.) ; Lieutenant H. S. 

 Perrot, R.G.A. (Camp Dthali, Aden Field Force, S. Arabia) ; Colonel C. G. 

 F. Fagan, I. A. (Alwar, Rajputana) ; Captain H. A. F. Margarth (Fort Lock- 

 hart) ; Mr. W. G. Page (Surat) > Mr. J. T. 0. Barnard (Kamaing, Upper 

 Burma) ; H. H. the Maharajah Tukuji Rao Holkar (Indore, C. I,) (Life 

 Member) ; Mr. F. Fletcher (Poona) ; Mr. W. McC. Kirkpatrick (Delhi) ; The 

 Secretary, Kasauli Club (Kasauli, Punjab) ; Mr. T. N. C. Nevill (Bramall Hall, 

 near Stockport, Cheshire) ; The Mess President, 130th Baluchis (Hyderabad^ 

 Sind) ; Captain C. C. Cobbe (Waltair) ; Lieutenant H. J. Elles, R.E. (Roorkie) -, 

 Lieutenant Chas. Elliot (Rangoon) ; Mr. C. J. Mackay (Mozufferpore, T. S. 

 R.) ; Mr. A. Parasu Ramdas Patro, B.A. (Berhampore) ; Rev. E. Blatter, S.J. 

 (Bombay) ; The Vice-President, Natural History Museum (Darjeeling) ; and 

 Captain J. T. Campbell (Simla). 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



The Honorary Secretary, Mr. H. M. Phipson, acknowledged receipt of the 

 following contributions since last meeting : — 



