432 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XII. 



Report of the Geological Survey of India for 1897-98; Report of the 

 Director of the Botanical Survey of India for the Year 1897-98. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were then read and discussed : — 



(1) The J^thiopian Wart Hog {Phacochcerus ccthiojncus), by Captain P. Z. 

 Cox, F.Z.S.,F.R.G.S. 



(2) Notes on Wild Fowl in the Tinnevelly District, by Mr. W. N.Fleming. 



(3) Does the Brown Bear Ilybernate ? by Mr. C. Donald. 



(4) Hybernation of the Himalayan Black Bear (JJrsus torquatus), by Major 

 G. S. Rodon. 



(5) Birds not recorded from Travancore in the "Fauna of British India — 

 Birds," by Mr. H. S. Ferguson, F.Z.S., F.L.S. 



(6) Notes on Sport in Oudh, by Mr. S. Eardley-Wilmot. 



(7) Lion Cubs, by Major G. S. Eodon. 



(8) Migration of Eiiplcea core, by Mr. E. H. Aitken. 



(9) A Brace of Tigers with one Shot, by Mr. A. L. Butler. 



(10) Notes on the Caju nut tree (Anacardium occidentale) and the various 

 uses which can be made of the fruit and nut, by Dr. J.A. da Gama, L.M., M.A.B, 



A vote of thanks was passed to the authors of the various papers, all of 

 which will duly appear in the Society's Journal, and the meeting then ter- 

 minated. 



PROCEEDINGS 

 OF THE MEETING HELD ON 7th DECEMBER, 1898. 



A meeting of the members took place at the Society's Rooms on Wednes- 

 day, the 7th December, 1898, Doctor D. Macdonald presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The election of the following new members was announced: — Major N. 

 Manders, R. A. M. C. (F. E. S.), Colombo ; Mr. Arthur H. M. Jones (Bom- 

 bay), Mr. F. M. Mackwood (Colombo), Mr. M. J. Alderson (Kalutara, Ceylon), 

 Dr. Frederick Whyte (Cachar), Mr. W. V. Wallace, I.C.S. (Burma), Mr- 

 W. H. Craddock (Burma), Captain B. E. M. Gurdon, D.S.O. (Chitral), 

 Major C. L. Wilson, R.A. (Murree), Mr. R. W. Hanson (Persian Gulf),.Mr. 

 A. Hale (Straits Settlements), Lieutenant J. C. M. Hoskyn (Neemuch), 

 Lieutenant Ernest Earnest (Indore), Mr. S. H. Bergersen (Cachar), Mr. F. H. 

 Vick (Cachar), Mr. F. Hyde-Wilcox (Calcutta), Mr. R.S. Houth (Cachar), Mr. 

 E. St. J. Gebbie (Cachar), Mr. C. B. Holman Hunt (Ceylon), Mr. David A. 

 Macmillan (Orissa), Mr. J. W. W. Danson (Rangoon), Lieutenant J. Dalby, 

 E.A. (Jubbulpore), Colonel J, Duke, I.M.S. (Kashmir). Lieutenant H. M. 

 Butler (Ahmedabad), Mr. Lionel E. Caine (Mombasa), Captain R. G. Burton 

 (Jalna), Mr. R. M. Kennedy, I.C.S. (Bombay), Major F. D. Lumley 

 (Wellington), Lieutenant George H. R. Watts (Kohat), Mr. J. L. MacCarthy 

 O'Leary (Kurnool), and Major E. A. Grubbe (Mcerut). 



