216 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XV 111. 



Palaeontologia Indica : Series I, III, V, VI, VIII, — Cretaceous Fauna of 

 Southern India ; Series II XI, XII, — The fossil Indian Pre-lertiary Verte- 

 brate Flora of the Gondwana System, Series IV, Vol. I; Series VII, XIV, 

 Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous Fauna of Western India ; Series XIII, Vol. I, 

 Salt Range Fossils, and Series X. 



LOSSES TO THE SOCIETY. 



The Rev. F. Dreckmann referred to the loss which the Society had experi- 

 enced through the departure from Bombay of Mr. Comber, the Honorary 

 Secretary for the Birds and Mammals Sectim, and who had been in charge of 

 our Collection of Sh<dls ; and of Mr L. C. H. Young, who had for several 

 years been in charge of the 1' ntomological Collections, which he had arranged 

 and classified on a scientific basis. 



Mr. Comber was still in India and able to help us with his advice, and the 

 speaker hoped that Mr. Young, who had left India in bad health, would speedi- 

 ly recover and be able to continue the interesting series of papers he had 

 been writing for the Journal on the Common Butterflies of the Plains of India. 



The loss of two such men to a Society dependent on honorary labour was a 

 serious blow, but he was happy to be able to state that owing to the generosity 

 of the Bombay Government, the Society was row in a position to secure the 

 sorvices of a curator, who would be a trained naturalist. Great pains were 

 being taken to obtain a suitable man and he was glad to say that Mr. Millard 

 had found the right kind of man at home, and that he hoped to hear in a 

 week or two that the Society's offer had been accepted. Should this be the 

 case, the new curator would spend two or three months at the Natural Eistory 

 Museum, South Kensington, and arrive here at the end of November. 



THE RETIRING PRESIDENT. 



Mr. James Macdonald proposed that a vote of thanks should be passed to 

 H. E. Lord Lamington, their retiring President, and also aii expression of their 

 sympathy and great regret at the reason which had compelled His Excellency 

 to leave India so soon, and their hope that Lady Lamington's health would be 

 speedily restored. 



In the course of his remarks Mr. Macdonald pointed out that Lord Laming- 

 ton, who had been their President since January li)04, had shown bis interest 

 in the Society and in Natural History in general in many ways. He had 

 presided at one of their meetings, and the fine Ghavial head on the table had 

 been presented by Lord Lamington who had shot it in Sind. 



It was during Lord Lamington's Governorship that the Society had received 

 from the Bombay Government the promise of an additional grant of 

 Rs. 2,500 per annum which would enable the Society to obtain the services 

 of the trained curator of whom Father Dreckmann had spoken. 



The new Public Museum for Bombay owed its inception to His Excellency ; 

 and the speaker hoped that Lord Lamington would at some future date revisit 

 India and see the Museum completed and in vigorous life. 



