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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON THE 31st AUGUST 19(19. 



A meeting of the members of the Bombay Natural History Society took 

 place at the Society's Rooms on Tuesday evening, 31st August, the Rev. Father 

 Dreckman. S. J., in the chair. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The election of the following 70 new members since the last meeting was 

 announced : — Rao Nahar Singh of Bedla ; Mr. Carl Gross (Bombay) : Mr. 

 William Archibald (Rangoon) ; Mr. Jehangir Fardunji Dastur (Bandra); Mr, W. 

 Harris (Dacca) ; Principal, College of Agriculture (Bengal, Bhagalpur) ; 

 :Mr. E. A. Smythies (Naini Tal) ; Mr. Maung Po Bye, K. S. M. and F. R.C.I, 

 (^[yaungmya, Burma) ; Mr. Reginald Edward Vere Argyle (Madras) ; Mr. N. V. 

 Parames (Ernakulam, Cochin State) ; Mr. Sydney A.Christopher (Rangoon); 

 Mr. A. W. Mercer (Kohat) ; Mr. H. G. FitzGerald (Kohat) ; Mr. R. M. Maxwell. 

 I.C.S. (Karwar); Mr, E.O. Shebbeare (Jalpaiguri) ; Mr. W. H. Barnet (Meiktilla 

 Cantt., Burma) ; Mr. E. Alan Hay (London, W.) ; Mr. P. Eccles (Nagpur) ; 

 Mr. R. D. Hoste (Raipur, C. P.) ; Major H. N. Kelley (Jubbulpore) ; Dr. 

 Scoresby-Jackson (Abu Road) ; Mr. H. A. Shore (Waltair, Vizagapatam Dist.) ; 

 Mr. G. Whittall fMandalay) ; Mr. A. B. Aitken (Punjab) ; Capt. J.H. Murray, 

 I. M. S. (Port Blair) ; Mess President, 109th Infantry (Santa Cruz) ; Mr. 

 D. L. Drake-Brockman, I. C. S. (Naini Tal) ; Mr. H.H. Craw, I.C.S. (Rangoon) ; 

 Mr. W. T. AVhite (Mandalay) ; Mr. H. H. Clair Smallwood (Thabeitkyin, U. 

 Burma) ; Mr. Horace E. Candy (Touugoo) ; Mr. G. G. Rorie (Toungoo) » 

 Mr. F. G. Fitzherbert (Toungoo) ; Mr. C. A, Petley (Toungoo) ; Dr. J. H. 

 Sheldon (Toungoo) : Mr. J. D. Grafton Wignall (Malakand) ; Lt. J, E. B. 

 Scrafton, I.A. (Secunderabad) ; Mr. P. Burd (Sylhet) ; Lt. F. Stevenson, M.B., 

 I. :M. S. (Imphal) ; Mr. H. M. Inman, I.M.S, (Somaliland) ; Mr. Ernest Lund 

 (Balur) ; Lt. R. A. C. Murray (Islamabad. Kashmir) ;Capt. W. Blanford, R. A. 

 (Kohat) ; Mr. J. H. McCudden (Poena) ; Mr. F. St. J. Ballantine (Hafflong); 

 Mr. F. St. J. Gebbie (Karachi) ; Mr. W. C. McLeod (Mergui) ; Lt. F. B. Scott 

 (Fort Lockhart) ; Rev. H. J. Buxton (Rangoon) ; Mr. S. Gaddum f Bombay) : 

 Mr. H. B. Saxby (Bombay) ; Mr. F. B. Leach (Rangoon) ; Mr. V. T. Jansou 

 (Bombay); Capt., Michael-Lloyd Ferar (Lyallpur); Capt. L. P. Brassey(Buima); 

 Mess Secretary, 91st Punjabis (Meiktilla Cantt.) ; Mr. C. A. White (Dacca) ; 

 Mr. A. Feilman (Dacca) ; Mr. P. L. Faulkner, F.R.G.S. (Dacca) ; Mr. R. 

 Branford (Dacca) ; Lt. G. S. Husband, I. M. S. (Fort Lockhart) , Mr. D. Burns 

 (Jubbulpore) ; Mr. C. R. Barnett (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Lt. H.L. Haugton 

 (Rawal Pindi) ; General Mohun Shurnshere Jung Bahadur Rana General 

 (Nepal) ;Mr. A. W. Robert (Madras) ; Capt. C. H. Reinhold. I.M.S. (Kohat) ; 

 Mr. H. McComas (Maymyo);the Mess Secretary, 58th Rifles, F. F. (Kohat) : 

 Capt.H, V. Bagshawe, R.A.M.C. (London). 



