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stands, carries greater quantities of vegetable matter than the river 

 Hughly had yet to be established before the theory could be accepted. 



Colonel Waterhouse suggested that the sounds might be due to 

 explosions in the Petroleum beds at Cheduba Island. 



The President urged further observations and suggested that the 

 Government officers at Hattia, Manpura and Dakhin Shabazpur should 

 be addressed. It was clear that in Backerguuge the sounds came from 

 the South and the ' echo ' theory did not seem to account for them, as 

 they were heard where there were no river banks, e. g., at Kukri Mukri. 



LlBI\AF\Y. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 meeting held in July last. 



Transactions, Proceedings and Joup^als, 



presented by the respective Societies and Editors. 



Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University, — Circulars, Vol, IX, No. 82. 

 Batavia. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, — 

 Kotulen, Deel XXVIII, Aflevering 1. 



. . . Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-en Volken- 



kunde, Deel XXXIV, Aflevering, 1. 

 Berlin. Der Koniglich Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu. 



Berlin,— Sitzungsberichte, XXXIX— LI [I, 1889. 

 Bombay. The Indian Antiquaiy,— Vol. IX, Parts 235 — 236. 

 Boi'deaux. La Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux, — Actes, Tome XLII. 

 Budapest. Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, — Foldrajzi tvozlemenyek, 



Kotet XVIII, Fiizet 3—4. 

 Calcutta. Indian Engineering, — Vol. VIII, Nos. 1—5. 



-. •. Photographic Society of India, — Journal, Vol. Ill, No. 8. 



Cherbourg. La Societe Nationale des Sciences Natiirelles et Mathe- 



matiques de Cherbourg, — Memoires, Tome XXVI. 

 Copenhagen. K. Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab, — Aarboger, Raekke II, 



Bind V, Heft 1. 

 Dresden. Gesellschaft Iris in Dresden, — Deutsche Entomologische 

 Zeitschrift, Jahrgang 1889, Ersfces Lepidopterologisches Heft. 



. Konigliches Ethnographischea Museum zu Dresden, — VII. 

 Masken von New Guinea und dem Bismarck Arcliipel. 



