356 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The Secretary read a note by Mr. J. Haselden, communicated by Sir 
Sidney Saunders, relating to the habits of the honey-bee (Apis fasciata ?) 
in Egypt. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse communicated a paper “On New Coleoptera from 
Australia and Tasmania in the Collection of the British Museum.”— 
R. Mexpoua, Hon. See. ! 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India: their Haunts 
and Habits from Personal Observation ; with an Account of 
the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants. By G. P. 
SANDERSON. 4to, pp. 387, with Maps and Photo-tint Illus- 
trations. London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1878. 
Mr. SANDERSON is the officer in charge of the Government 
Elephant-catching Establishment in the province of Mysore, 
Southern India, which establishment, some few years ago, was 
instituted principally through his instrumentality and energy. It 
is here that most of his experience of wild animals has been 
gained from the time when he first set foot in India as a “ griffin,” 
and “an opportunity was afforded him of changing what had 
hitherto been his favourite recreation only—sport—into the 
business of his life.” Having met with considerable success in 
capturing wild elephants in this province, he was appointed to 
the temporary charge of the Bengal Elephant-catching Establish- 
ment, and spent nine months in the wild and little-known region 
of the Garrow and Chittagong hill-tracts, subsequently returning 
to Mysore. It will be readily conceded that a man who has 
enjoyed such opportunities, in such a country, for sport and the 
observation of wild animals, should be well qualified to write a 
book like the present. Indeed, as the author himself says, “ Anyone 
who has devoted himself to Indian field sports for some years as 
I have done, must have been singularly unfortunate if he has not 
sufficient exciting facts noted in his journal to fill a book, without 
the necessity of resorting to fiction or exaggeration.” 
The game list of Mysore is a very attractive one, including 
as it does the following fere nalure :—Elephant, Bison or Gaur, 
Tiger, Panther, Leopard, Cheetah, Bear, Wolf, Striped Hyena, 
