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and its people, is very much the hest of it. The author really did make acquaint- 

 ance with the country and people, and his observations about both are valuable, 

 very unlike his hasty generalizations on Indian matters. He killed gibbons and 

 ourang-outangs and "proboscis monkeys," and collected more strange creatures 

 than we have space to enumerate. 



Altogether his book is better worth reading than any recent book on the Far 

 East and the part of it dealing with his own adventures and special subject is as 

 good as it can be ; the " obiter dicta," as we have already remarked, are frequently 

 hasty, and, we regret to add, occasionally in the very worst taste. 



The illustrations are of very various degrees of merit. Those by the author's 

 own hand would make Mr. Ruskin stare and gasp, but have a certain quaint 

 verisimilitude. Others, borrowed (always with acknowledgment) or executed for the 

 work by professional artists are of high quality. 



PKOCEEDINGS. 



The usual Monthly Meeting of the Society took place on Monday, the 10th January 

 1887. 



Dr. D. Macdonald presided. 



The following new members were elected : — Mr. W. W. Barr, Rev. E. S. Hall, Mr. 

 John Wallace, Major T. T. Leonard, Mr. W. F. Melvin. 



The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Phipson, reported receipts of contributions to the 

 Society's Collection, amongst which were two Birds of Paradise from H. H. The Maha- 

 raja Holkar ; Lizards and Snakes from Mr. F. Gleadow ; a large collection of Fishes 

 &c, from the Red Sea and Perim from Capt. Aves ; a collection of Butterflies from 

 Col. C. Swinhoe ; and one of plants from Mr. James Murray. 



To the Library were contributed : — Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 18, Nos. 

 107-108, from Mr. H. Littledale ; Two Tears in the Jungle (Hornaday), from Lieut. 

 W. A. Connop, R. N. ; Useful Plants of the Bombay Presidency (Dr. Lisboa), from the 

 Author ; Journal of Comparative Medicine and Anatomy, Vol. I. ; Journal of the 

 Brovelle Society of Natural History, Nos. 1 and 2 Proceedings of the Linnsean Society 

 of N. S. Wales, Vol. I., Part 3. 



Mr. Murray, late Curator of the Kurrachee Museum, exhibited a collection of 

 Marine Algae consisting of 212 species, from the Coast of Sind, and described the same. 

 Dr. Kirtikar read a paper on Marine Alga? collected by the Hon'ble Mr. Justice 

 Birdwood on the Ratnagiri Coast. Mr. Sterndale exhibited a fine head from his 

 own collection of Cervus maral, the Persian stag, and described the differences between 

 it and the Cashmere stag. 



The usual Monthly Meeting of the Society took place on Monday, 7th February 

 1887. 



Dr. D. Macdonald presided. 



The following new members were elected : — Lieut. W. A. Connop, R.N., Mr. H. T. 

 Silcock, C.S., Mr. Louis Bergl, Col. G. Merewether, B.E., Dr. J. H. Irving. 



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