3J8 JOURNAL, B'OMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXV. 



Turning to the Mammal Fund Accounts I find that we have increased 

 our balance from Rs. 8,526 to Rs. 9,333. Of course we have not appealed 

 for subscriptions ; but we have actually received Rs. 2,433 in donations. 

 Only one Collector, Mr. Baptista, has been working. All our English Col- 

 lectors have joined the Army. Mr. Baptista has recently gone to work 

 under Capt. Hotson who, as you know, joined the Indian Army. When 

 the War is over and we can get our Enghsh collectors back again, it will be 

 necessary to make an energetic appeal for funds. 



I think the members will agree that in the circumstances the funds of 

 the Society have been satisfactorily administered. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING HELD ON 1st MAY 1917. 



An " At Home" of members and their friends of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society took place on Tuesday, the 1st May. 



The election of the following 11 new members since the last nieeting was 

 announced : — Lt. C. H. Delmege, R.E., Bangalore ; Mr. Trimbak Govind 

 Yeolekar, Poena; Mr. Ralph Randies Stewart, Rawalpindi; Lt.-Col. H. M. 

 Halliday, Summerpur, Rajputana ; Mr. William Whyte, Rangoon ; Rev. F. 

 C. B. Jourdain, Europe ; Major C. W. Prescott, LA., Nowshera ; C. H. 

 Hutton, Esq., Srinagar ; Rev. W. M. Zumbro, Madura ; Mrs. M. C. Arundel- 

 Barker, Garhwal, and Mr. F. G. Butler, I.C.S. 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



The Society is once again indebted to its members serving with the forces 

 for a large part of its contributions since the last meeting. From Capt. J. 

 E. B. Hotson, I.A.R.O., comes a collection of 43 mammals, 27 birds and 

 several snakes, lizards, etc., obtained in Persia. From Mesopotamia Capt. 

 Pitman, always busy on our behalf, sent us two short-eared owls, 4 Spanish 

 sparrows, a common bunting and a desert chat, while Lt. Livesey procured 

 for us a European roller, a blue-cheeked bee-eater, and the skin and skull 

 of a jackal, a most welcome contribution as the Society is anxious to obtain 

 a series of skins and skulls of these animals from Mesopotamia and Persia. 

 Col. Stevens presented us with a teal, a bittern, and one Eastern Baillon's 

 crake. From Capt. Armitage, R.N.R., the Society has received two Sooty 

 or Hemprichs gulls from Aden, a very welcome addition to our collection 

 as this species has been very poorly represented hitherto. Another of these 

 birds was obtained for us at Muscat by Major Husband, I. M.S., while two 

 tesselated water snakes, two Gray's rat snakes, and a dozen scorpions 

 were received from Basra from Col. Anderson. 



From within " Indian " limits the Society received a very interesting 

 little collection of mammals from Mr. P. M. R. Leonard obtained on the 

 Burmo-Chinese Frontier, among these were four handsome flying squirrels 

 and a golden cat, two cat bears and two weasels. Mr. C. W. Allen sent us 

 a large Indian civet and a jungle cat from Henzada, whilst a second speci- 

 men of the former was together with a Phayres leaf monkey and two 

 Malay vampires obtained for us by Mr. F. C. Purkis of Magwe. A bar- 

 tailed cuckoo-dove from Mr. W. Hannyngton, Shwebo, and an imperial 

 pigeon and Burmese ring dove from Mr. F. Atlay, Mogok, complete the 

 contributions received from Burma. 



Mr. C. H. Dracott sent in a leopard cat and a marmot from Sikkim, the 

 latter skin was damaged, which is unfortunate as specimens of this animal 

 from Sikkim and Tibet are amongst the Society's " wants." A Solitary 



