520 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XV111. 



The Negative Phototaxis of Blow-fly Larvae, Vict. Nat., Vol. XXIV, No. 3. 



Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 6. 



On new or rare Australian Plants in the National Herbarium, Melbourne. 

 Vict. Nat., Vol. XXIV, No. 1. 



Flora Simlensis, by Col. Sir Henry Collett. Presented by Mr. C. W. Craig. 



Curative value of a local infection with live pyogenic germ in Bubonic 

 Plague, by Dr. R. Row, M. D. From the Author. 



Effects of " Salted " Plague Toxin as a curative vaccine in man, by Dr. R. 

 Row, M. D. From the Author, 



Bacillus Pestis in Symbiosis with Staphylococcus Pyogenes, by Dr. R. Row, 

 M.D. From the Author. 



Some properties of Plague Toxin with special reference to the characters of 

 a " Salted Plague Vaccine," by Dr. R. Row, M. D. From the Author. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following pa pers were then read : — 



1. A Note on Hum crepitans (Sand box), found at Khandalla with speci- 

 mens of flowers, fruit and seed, by Lt.-Col. K. R. Kirtikar, I. M. S. (Retd,). 

 F. L. S. 



2. On some Bombay "Hydras," by A. Powell, M. D. 



3. Fleas and Plague, by E. L. Sale, I. C. S., with a note by Capt. W, Glen 

 Liston, I. M. S. 



4. A Gaur attacking and killing a man without provocation, by Lt.-Col. H. 

 V. Biggs, R. E. 



The meeting then terminated with a vote of thanks to the authors of the 

 different papers, which will appear in the Society's Journal. 



REPORT OF THE BALUCHISTAN NATURAL HISTORY 



SOCIETY. 



Meetings of the Members were held in the Quetta Museum on the 25th 

 July and 29th August 1907 and lists of the donations to the Museum and 

 Library were recorded. At the meeting held on the 1st, of October corres- 

 pondence with the Superintendent, Indian Museum (Natural History Section), 

 Calcutta, was read, regarding a consignment of rats and snakes forwarded to 

 him from the Quetta Museum on the understanding that one of each should 

 be returned properly classified, and it was resolved that the next consignment 

 be forwarded to the Bombay Natural History Society on the same under- 

 standing. 



The Honorary Secretary (Mr. J. W. N. Cumming) placed before the 

 meeting a list prepared by Rai Sahib Diwan Jamiat Rai of all the reports, &c, 

 which have been published on the subject of the Geology of Baluchistan and 

 reported that the Rai Sahib was preparing a similar list of the publications 

 issued on the Botany of Baluchistan and that a complete list of notes, &c, on 

 the Zoology of the country would be prepared on receipt of the complete set 



