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Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



A Lizard from Baluchistan 



2 Cobras (alive) 



1 Snake 



1 Snake (alive") 



1 Monitor (alive) 



1 Bat , 



2 Terapins 



Some Insects and Spiders 



Butterflies 



1 Snake (alive) 



1 Snake 



Agama isolep is 



Naia tripvdians 



Simotes albocinctus 



Zamenisfasciolatus 



Varanus Bengalensia ...... 



Cynopterus marginatus 



Platystermm megacephalum 

 (from Si am) 



From Quetta 



Python molnrus 



Oligodon 3fcDougaW 



■?p.n. 



Col. R. H. Light. 



Col. W. Bannerman, T.M.S. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Dr. V. L. Mankar. 

 Mr. C G. Fee. 

 Mr. H. D. G. Garrett. 



Mr. C. B. C. Fischer, I.F.S. 

 Mr. Neville Eliot, R.A. 

 Mr. D. J. Tata. 

 Mr. E. McDougall. 



Minor contribution from Mrs. Payne. 



Contributions to the Library : — Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Calcutta, Vol. X, Part I, in exchange. 



Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Parts XVI to XXV, from the 

 Trustees, 



BEE CULTURE. 



Mr. H. M. Phipson stated that he had lately been trying to interest the 

 Agricultural Department on the subject of bee culture in the hope that they 

 might see their way to carry out properly conducted experiments on the 

 domestication of the two species of Indian bees which are not migratory (Apis 

 nigrocinctus and Apis dorsata), and also possibly to introduce the European 

 hive bee (Apis mellifica). Seeing how largely honey is used by the people of 

 this country for the preservation of fruit and for sweetmeats, it is surprising 

 that bee culture has not been further developed. Dr. Thedore Cooke made 

 some interesting experiments several years ago, in Poona, with Apis indica, but 

 as this species of bee is known to be migratory the experiments led to dis- 

 appointment, as on the approach of the hot season the swarms fled to the hills 

 along with the Government officials. Had the experiments been made with 

 the rock bee (Apis dorsata), which is twice the size of the other, the results 

 might have been very different. 



Mr. L. C. H. Young, the Honorary Secretary of the Insect Section, read 

 some extracts from the latest work on the subject of Indian Hymenoptera, by 

 Col. C. T. Bingham, and suggested that members of the Society living in the 

 Punjab, Kolhapur, and other places, where experiments had been made, should 

 be asked to communicate with the Society on the subject. 



FLEAS. 

 The Honorary Secretary stated that Capt. W. G. Liston, I.M.S., had kindly 

 offered to read another paper before this Society, at the November meeting, on 

 the subject of fleas and the part they play in the propagation of plague. Capt. 

 Liston, it will be remembered, read a paper on this subject on the 15th March 

 1903, but he has since devoted much time to it and an account of his recent 

 investigations will be of the greatest interest. 



