54 Address, [Feb. 



A report on a second collection of Sponges made by Mr. Thurston 

 in the Gulf of Manaar was published by Mr. Arthur Dendy, in the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Fourteen of the twenty-four 

 determinable species forming the collection are new. In Mr. Thurston's 

 report a list is given of butterflies, mostly from the Nilgiris, added 

 during the year, the numbering corresponding with Mr. Hampson's 

 monograph published in our Journal for 1888 ; also lists of Birds and 

 of Eggs of Indian birds. A specimen of BJiinodon, measuring 20 feet 

 in length, was cast on shore at Madras and has been added to the 

 Museum. 



Mr. Thurston has now in the press and nearly ready for issue 

 " Notes on the Pearl and GhanJc Fislieries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf 

 of Manaar," dealing with the Tuticorin Pearl Fishery ; Pearls from 

 Mytilus smaragdinus and Placmia placenta ; the Tuticorin Chank Fisheiy ; 

 the Ceylon Pearl Fishery ; Rameswaram Island ; Marine Fauna of the 

 Gulf of Manaar. 



The Jeypore Museum. From a memorandum with which Dr. Hendley, 

 the Secretary, has kindly favoured me on the progress of the Jeypore 

 Museum during the past year, it appears that the Museum has been 

 visited by about 237,501 persons during the year, or some 10,000 more 

 than the year before. The visitors are observed to begin to show a 

 more intelligent interest in the exhibits, and to study them instead of 

 regarding them merely as curiosities. On one night in the week the 

 rooms are illuminated with gas, and arrangements are also made for 

 reserving admission to purdah women on special application. 



The building has been completed during the year. A series of 14 

 portraits in distemper of the Maharajahs of Jeypore since the time of 

 Baber has been completed and adorns the entrance-hall of the Museum. 



New exhibits to the extent of Rs. 7,250 have been purchased and 

 include typical collections of Indian shells and of Indian insects. Models 

 illustrating the anatomy and physiology of the horse and of its dentition 

 have been procured from Paris and are of use in teaching native farriers. 

 A similar model of a man has been added and others illustrative of com- 

 parative anatomy and zoology are expected shortly. Specimens of 

 artificial flowers, cai'eful studies of nature by Miss C. Janch, of Breslau, 

 have been added in the Botanical Section, also relief maps, models of 

 Indian snakes, and of the head of a cobra dissected to shew the poisonou s 

 glands and fangs. Analyses of 28 kinds of Indian foods and beverages 

 are also illustrated. 



The total expenditure for 1889, all of which has been met by the 

 the Durbar, has amounted to Rs. 17,549, so that the cost-rate per visitor 

 has been about 1"14 anna. 



