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tlie introduction to his'paper, an interesting note on their social habits 

 and religious beliefs. 



Journal, Part II. 



Four parts containing over 500 pages of the Journal, Vol. lxix,Pai t II, 

 which is devoted to Natural Science, were issued during the curi-ent 

 year. They compii.se nineteen papers, and fully sustain the liigli scienti- 

 {jc value of the Journal of the Society. 



The first paper of 87 pages is No. 11 of Sir George King's " Mato- 

 ri:\ls for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula," and contains an account 

 of the order Melastomacex. One genus, Sonerila, has been written bv 

 Dr. 0. Stapf, First Assistant in the Royal Herbaiium, Kew, The sub- 

 orders MelastomeK, Astronicx and Memecyleie are characterised. No new 

 genera, but 61 new species and 11 new varieties are described. All the 

 previously described sjiecies in the orders are re-described by Messis. 

 King and Stapf, the paper thus foi-ming a complete monograph of the 

 order. 



With No, 2 was issued a coloured plate of certain larvaj and pupa? 

 of butterflies, from the Ke Archipelago, to illustrate Mi-, de Niceville's 

 paper on the butterflies of those islands published in Vol. Ixvii, Part II, 

 of the Journal for 1898. 



The second paper by Mr. W. P. Masson deals with four rare mam- 

 mals occurring in the neighboui'hood of Darjeeling. 



The third paper is by Babu Promothonath Dutt, and is entitled 

 " On a new method of treating the pi-operties of the circle and anttloo-ous 

 matters," and is illustrated by five woodcuts in the text. 



The fourth paper is a " Note on a method of detectinof free Phos- 

 phorus " by Professor P. Mukeiji, who gives an account of the apparatus 

 used and the method of carrying out the test. 



In the fifth paper Captain H. J. Walton, I. M.S., records the occui-- 

 rence of the Desert llose-Finch (Rhodospiza ohsoletct, Licht. ) in the 

 Tochi Valley, which is the first record of the occurrence of this bird 

 within the limits of the Indian empire. 



In the sixth paper Col. C. T. Bingham and Mr. H. N. Thompson 

 give a list with copious and very interesting notes of the Birds collected 

 and observed in the Southern Shan States of Upper Burma. Three 

 hundred and one species are catalogued. No new species are des- 

 cribed. 



The seventh paper is by Mr. F. Finn, and is devoted to redes- 

 cribinj? the form of Cormorant iidiabiting the Crozette Islands. The 

 bird was first described by Mr. Blyth in our Journal, and the type 

 Bpccimen is still in the collection of the Indian Museum. Calcutta. Mr 



