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and retired from (he Indian Service in 1886. He had married a few 

 years previously, and after retiring lie travelled with his wife to Japan. 

 Finall}' he settled in London, but for the remainder of his life his 

 health was somewluit precarious, and he passed several winters in 

 Efrypt. Here he took up the study of the mammals and reptiles, 

 which had received but scant attention since the early part uf the cen- 

 tuiy, when the great and superbly illustrated French work on Egypt 

 appeared — a woik which, brilliantly begun by iSavigny and others, was 

 never adequately completed. 



To the work of collecting, examining, figuring and describing the 

 Mamuialia, Reptilia and Batrachia of l*Jgypt, the later part of Dr. 

 Anderson's life, when he was well enough for work, was mainly devoted. 

 He also paid some attention to the fauna of the neighbouring countries, 

 and in 1898 published " A Contribution to the Herpetology of Arabia," 

 founded on the collections of the late Mr. J. T. Bent and others. The 

 first part of the important work he had intended to produce on the 

 zoology of Egypt, containing an account of the physical features of the 

 country and descriptions of Reptilia and Batrachia, appeared in 1898. 

 It is a fine quarto volume with excellent figures, many of them coloured. 

 He had made large collections and notes for the volume on Mammalia, 

 and these it is hoped will be published in due course. 



One of the last undertakings in which Dr. Anderson engaged, as 

 soon as the Upper Nile valley was once more thrown open to civilisation, 

 was the systematic collection and description of the fish inhabiting the 

 river and its tributaries. That this impoi-tant work (of which a notice 

 appeared in Natuiik of February 2.3, 1899) is now being carried out 

 with warm interest and assistance from the Egpytian Government, must 

 be attributed to Dr. Anderson's foresight, zeal and skilful advocacy. 

 Both in our Indian Empire and in North- Eastern Africa, Dr. Anderson 

 contributed much to the solution of one the chief biological questions of 

 the i^reseut day, an accui'ate knowledge of the distribution of animal 

 .life." 



[ A. Alcock. ] 



The Report having been read and some copies having heen distri- 

 buted, the President invited the Meeting to consider it at their leisure. 



The President announced that the Elliott Prize for Scientific 

 Uesearch for the year 1900 would not be awarded, and that the Barclay 

 Memorial Medal fur the year 1900 had been offered to IMr. E. Ernest 

 L^reeu, (jovernmeul Entomologist of Ceylon. 



