M.w 9, 1895J 



A^A TURE 



lice, egg, Ovc, (111 a hard wikhI table, and taking a pencil from 

 liis pocket an<i collecting the eatables together, close to the 

 edge of the gauze cover, he lifted its edge, and with the jiencil 

 point inserted, began sharply tapping among the rice debris. 



The two chicks at once ran over to that place and bent over, 

 watching the tapping, and to our astonishment they began tap- 

 ping with their little beaks the same way, and before long had 

 Itegun to feed on their tnvn account, just as the " Babu "' had 

 predicted ; and after that lesson we had no trouble. 



.\s I happen to be writing, I may mention that our land lizard 

 ( ; feet 6 inches to 4 feet 6 inches total length, name unknown to 

 me) has begun calling in the early tiawii and tlusk at evening. 

 It is silent during the day and night. 



From the bearings taken, it can be heard plainly at a mile in 

 forest, and often tive or six calling at once in different directions. 



The native .\samese name is " tlui,'' which is precisely the sound 

 it makes ; by the old spelling it is " Ciooee." S. E. I'EAI,. 



.Sibsagar, Asam, April 4. 



The Bagdad Date mark. 



There will be found in (Irattan deary's " Through Asiatic 

 Turkey" all about the date-mark — a mysterious and troublesome 

 excoriation, r<iming ordy once, but which lasts a year, leaving an 

 ugly scar the size and <Hitline of the fruit — visit(.>rs for any length 

 of time at Hagilad seldom, and residents never, escape. It is also 

 known at .\Iep]io anti other jilaces, but is worst in Bagdad, 

 almost every native being marked, liven nitric acid has been 

 found to have little effect upon it. I lately spent forty-four 

 days, ofi" and on, at Bagdad, and imagined I had escaped ; not 

 so, however, as it proved six weeks alter my return to India. 

 But the mark yielded forthwith, and before any damage was 

 flone, to hyi)osiilj>hite of soda, which does so much "fixing" for 

 every amateur ijhotograjjher, and seemed worth trying. The 

 fact itiay be usefully mentionetl in the interest of Mesopotamia!! 

 explorers who do not want to be date-marke<l as a memento ; 

 but it is to physiologists they must look for an explanation. 



Bombay. .\|iril 12. A. T. Fraser. 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY SELECTED 

 CANDIDA TES. 



''T'^HK following arc the names and qualitications of the 

 *■ fifteen candidates retommendcd by the Council of 

 the Royal Society, on Tluirsday last, for election into the 

 Society. 



J. Wol.ll. li.\RK\, 



C.B. , Civil lingineer. Vice- ['resident of the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers. Is eminently distinguished in his pro- 

 fession, and has designed and executed many works of national 

 importance, which include the Tower Bridge, opened by 

 II.K.H. the Prince of Wales, 1894: the City Terminus exten- 

 sion of the Charing Cro.ss Railway, the Inner Circle Rail- 

 w-ay. and the Barry Dock. Has served as a member of the 

 following Royal and Departmental Commissions: — Royal 

 Commission on Irish Public Works, 18S7 ; Highlands and 

 Islands of Scotland Commission, 1890; Commission on the 

 River Kibble, 1891 ; Thames Navigation Commissir>n, 1894. 

 .Member de la Commission Consultative rles Travaux de la 

 Campagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez. Is the 

 author of many papers, mainly in reference to engineering W'orks, 

 which have been publislieii in the Transactions of tlw Institufion of 

 Civil En;^iii:'frsA\v\ elsew here. Is the author of several professional 

 treati.scs, among which the following are the more important : 

 "The Barry Dock" (British .\ssociation Report, 1SS8) : 

 *' Railway .Vppliances," " Railways aiul Locomotives," jiublished 

 in cfjnjunction with Sir 1'". Bramwell, Bart. 



.\l.KRKI) C.II'.HS Btn'RNK, 



D.Sc. (Lonil.), Professor of Biology in the Presidency College, 

 Madras. Kellow of University College, London. l*'or many 

 years engaged in teaching and in researches upon Comparative 

 Anatomy and iMiibryology, especially of Invertebrala. Especiall)' 

 known to comparative anatomists for his discoveries in the 

 structure of leeches, and as discoverer of the hydroid phase of 

 Linmocodium, also of two remarkable new genera of Chietopod 

 worms, described by him as Haplobranchus and Chcetobranchus. 

 .\uthor of the following, as well as several other memoirs : — 



NO. 1332, VOL. 52] 



" On the .Structure of the Nephridia of the Medicinal Leech" 

 Quart. Joiirn. Micros. Sci., 1880); "Contributions to the 

 Anatomy of the Hirudinea" (ibid., 1884); "On the Hydroid 

 Form of Linmocodium " (Proc. Roy. Soc, 1884); "On the 

 Supposed Communication of the Va.scular System with the 

 Exterior in Pleurobranchus " {Quart, fourn. Micros. Set., 1885). 

 Since he has been in India, Prof. Bourne ha,s .sent home 

 important researches on Indian Earthworms, on Cho-Hobranchus 

 (a new naidiform worm), on a new Protozoon of the genus 

 Pelomyxa, with observations on the structure of jirotoplasm, and 

 some \aluable experimental researches on the suicide of 

 Scori^ions {Proc. Roy. .Soc, 1889). 



George Harti.kv Ukvan, 



M..\., Fellow of I'eterhouse, Cambridge. Lecturer (on Thermo- 

 dynamics, itc. ) on the University list. Fifth Wrangler, 1886; 

 Class I, Division I, 1887 ; bracketed with .Senior Wrangler, 

 Smith's Prize, 1888, for the Essay "On the Curves on a 

 Rotating .Spheroid of F'inite Ellipticity " (Phil. Trans., 1889 A). 

 Author of the following papers : — " On the .Stability of a 

 Rotating Spheroid of Perfect F'luid " {Proc. Roy. Soc, vol. xlvii.) ; 

 " On the .Stability of Elastic Systems" ; " Waves on a Viscous 

 Rotating Cylinder" {Proc. Cam/i. Phil. Soc, vol. vi. ) ; and 

 several others in Phil. Mag., Proc. Pond. Math. .Soc, and Proc. 

 Camb. Phil. Soc, &c. Also joint author, with .Mr. Larmor, of 

 the Report on Thermodynamics, published in the British 

 Association Reports, 1891. 



John Eliot, 



M..\. (Cantab.), Meteorological Reporter to the (Government 

 of India. Late Meteorological Reporter to the (lovernment of 

 Bengal. W^as Second W^rangler and Smith's Prizeman, 1869. 

 Mr. Fallot, as Meteorological Rejrorter to the Government of 

 Bengal, and subsequently as Head of the .Meteorological Depart- 

 ment of India, has made many imjjortant additions to the physical 

 data of Indian meteorology, and has done much in their utilisation, 

 and in the improvement of the administration of the department 

 of which he is now the head. Under him have been carried 

 out the publication of Daily Weather Charts for the Bay of 

 Bengal and Calcutta, for Bombay and the Western Coasts of 

 India, and general charts for the whole peninsula. He has also 

 organised the systematic collection of marine observations from 

 ships arriving at the chief Indian ports. His special work, con- 

 tained in a long series of memoirs, published either in separate 

 form by the Meteorological Department, or in tlie fournal of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, chietly relates to storms in India and 

 Indian seas, and comprises complete histories and discussions of 

 fifteen cyclones and upwards of one hundretl storms that have 

 occurred between 1877 and 1886. The .\nnual Reports of the 

 Meteorological Dejjartment, jirejiaretl by him. also contain many 

 valuable and original discussions. He has contributed very 

 largely to establish the Indian Metec)rological I)e])artment on a 

 thoroughly scientific basis, and to maint.aining its high character 

 and recogniseil practical importance to our great Indian 

 depen<lency. 



Joseph Revnoi.d.s Green, 



D..Sc. (Cantab.), M.A., B.Sc. (Lond.), F.L.S. Profes.sor of 

 Botany, Pharmaceutical Society of (Great Britain. Di.stinguished 

 for his acquaintance with botany. Attached to .science, and has 

 contributed to its progress by discoveries in the region of physio- 

 logical chemistry, with reference chiefiy to plants. His more 

 important contributions are contained in the following papers : — 

 " C)n the Organs of Secretion in the Ilypericaccw " (fount. 

 Linn. .Soc. (Hot.), vol. xx., 1883) ; (with Dr. Sheridan Lea) 

 " Some Notes on the iMbrin-fcrment " (fourn. of Physiol., vol. 

 iv., 1883); "On the Edible Bird's Nest of the Java Swift " («(i/a'., 

 vol. vi., 18S5); "On Proteids occurring in Latex " (/Vo(-. Roy. 

 Soc, 1886): "On the Action of Sodium Chloride in dissolving 

 F'ibrin " {Journ. of I'hysiol., vol. viii., 1SS7) ; (Jn Certain Points 

 connected witli the Ci>agulalion of the Blood " (ibid. ) : " On the 

 Changes in the Proteids of the Seed which accompany (.iermina- 

 tion ■' (Phil. Trans., 1887) : " On the Germination of the Tuber 

 of the Jerusalem Antichoke " (Whwii/j- of Botany, vol. i., 188S) : 

 " On the Germination of the .Seed of the Castor-oil Plant " (Proc. 

 Roy. Soc, 1S8S) : " On the (Jccurrence of Diast-ase in Pollen," 

 (Brit, .\ssoc. Report, 1891); " On the Occurrence of Vegetable 

 Trypsin in the Fruit of C«i«otm ulilissimus^' {.Innals of Botanv, 

 vol. vi., 1S92) ; (with Prof. Vines) "On the Reserve Protcid of 

 the Asparagus Root " (/Var. Roy. Soc, 1892): "On the Gcr- 



