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Columhite. Mangano-colambite, from Rumford, Maiue. Cryst. 

 Microlite. From Rumford, Maine. 

 Rumford (Maine). Pollucite, &c. 



Zoology. I 



WiNTON, W. E. de. Remarks on the existing forms of Giraffe. 

 P. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1897, pp. 273-283. 



\_Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Giraffidce.'] 



Giroffa, specific characters, figg. ; synonymy ... 

 Means of defence, use and origin of horns 

 Africa, distribution in 



III. The Regional Bureau for India and Ceylon. 



The Asiatic Society of Bengal, recognising the immense value of 

 tlie scheme to workers in this country, readily acceded to the request 

 of the Royal Society and undertook the formation and conduct of a 

 Regional Bureau for India and Ceylon. The Governments of India 

 and Ceylon have been addressed in the subject, and, in addition to an 

 annual grant sanctioned by the former Government to cover office ex- 

 penses, they have directed all heads of Government Departments 

 issuing publications on subjects included in the Royal Society's list, to 

 supply the Asiatic Society with primary slips of the kind described 

 above ; they have also instructed Local Governments and Administra- 

 tions to supply periodical lists of books and journals published within 

 their jurisdiction, with, as far as possible, copies of the publications. 



A Committee has been appointed by the Asiatic Society to control 

 the work of this Regional Bureau, and each subject defined by the 

 Royal Society is represented on the Committee by a specialist, who will 

 be responsible for checking or supplementing the primary slips relatiuo- 

 to publications in his particular subject. 



To Axdlwrs : — But as there are some fifty periodicals to be examined 

 besides independently published works, the Committee feels that its 

 self-imposed task will not be adequately carried out without the loyal 

 assistance of authors themselves, who, naturally, can most rapidly and 

 most accurately indicate the scope of their essays. 



The working of this scheme will, moreover, be attended with 

 certain advantages to the authors themselves ; for the catalogues will 

 be regularly printed and issued by the Royal Society to the subscribers 

 who will include, besides many of the chief workers in each science 

 the principal scientific institutions and libraries in the world. In this 

 way all scientific papers and books published in India will be broue-ht 



