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their epgs to take care of these valuable additions to that 

 institution. 



T/ie Bombay Natural Historji Society. — This well-known 

 Society issues an appeal for £2000 to enable it to procure 

 fresh s{)eciraens of tlie Fauua of Britisii ludia for its 

 jMuseum. The services of Mr. Sliortridge (late of the 

 New Guinea Expedition of the B.O.U.) have already been 

 secured for t\io years, but a second collector is much 

 "wanted. The ludian Museum at Calcutta is, no doubt, the 

 leading institution of the kind in India, but the great 

 Western Province ought also to have its claims for support 

 duly considered. 



The New Guinea Expedition of the B. 0. U. — At the 

 meeting of the B. O. C. on Oct. IZtli last, Mr. Goodfellow 

 gave a very interesting general statement on the birds 

 observed and collected by the Expedition, after which Mr. 



A. F. WoUaston made additional remarks about the con- 

 ditions of travel in the district of New Guinea visited, 

 which appeared to be of the most sei'ious kind [cf. Bull. 



B. O. C, vol. xxix, p. 2). At the following meeting on 

 Nov. 8th (see Bull. B. O. C. vol. xxix. p. 19) the Gaumont 

 Company gave a very successful exhibition of a series of 

 lantern-slides and cineniatogra})hic pictures taken by the 

 Members of the Expedition in Central New Guinea. Mr. A. 

 F. K. Wollaston explained tlie scenes as they were thrown 

 on the screen, and added some interesting observations 

 regarding the manners and customs of the natives. 



All the specimens collected have been presented to the 

 British Museum. That they are nnich appreciated by the 

 Trustees is shown by the following letter, wliich has been 

 addressed by Mr. Fletcher, the Director of the Mtisenm at 

 South Kensington, to Mr. Ogilvie-Graut, the Secretary of 

 the New Guinea Committee. 



" I have had the honour of laying before the Trustees of 

 tlie British Muscnm a report of the receipt at the Museum 

 of the valuable collection of zoological specimens from 

 Dutch New Guinea, Amboina, and Aru made by the 



