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the money forthe purpose of erecting a Children’s Hospital as a memorial of the 
visit precluded compliance with the request. 
The Western India Turf Club is a generous donor to so many institutions in 
Bombay that an appeal was made with some hopes to them; the ground for the 
appeal being the enjoyment the Society’s museum would give to the general 
public of Bombay. We are confident that the Committee of the Turf Club rea- 
lised this but we suppose they found a difficulty in considering the benefit con- 
ferred as one of a charitable nature and so, probably rightly, had to decline 
our request. 
Our only recourse seems, therefore, to be what should after all be our best re- 
source, namely, our own members. At the annual general meeting held at the end 
of February it was decided to ask members to become Vice-Patrons of the Society 
by contributing sums of Rupees Five Thousand and over for the use and benefit 
of the Prince of Wales’ Museum, Natural History Section. Monies so received 
will be used for the purchase of show cases and the mounting of specimens and 
the various show cases will bear inscriptions reading somewhat after this style : 
“* Presented by 
a member of theBombay Natural History Society and mounted for exhibition 
from funds provided by———_________ Vice-Patren 
of the Society.” 
We wonder whether we shall have the good fortune to exhibit any trophies 
presented by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales ? Our Curator, Mr. Ellison, accom- 
panied H. R. H. during his shoot in the Nepal Terai, Mysore, Bhopal, Gwalior 
and Patiala and looked after the live animals presented to H. R. H. by the 
Prime Minister of Nepal during their journey to Bombay. We hope that a 
future issue of this journal will contain an account of the Prince’s shikar in 
these three places. 
H. E. Sir George Lloyd, the President of the Society, accompanied by H. E. 
The Hon’ble Lady Lloyd paid a private visit to the Natural History Section of 
the Prince of Wales’ Museum and afterwards to the other sections on the 19th 
December. The Natural History Section, as arranged for the visit of 
H. R. H., was open to the general public for eight days in November 1921. It 
remained open after the public opening until the end of January and then had 
to be closed to all but members. The reason is that, until glass show cases and 
mounted specimens can be provided, the exhibits will spoil by being exposed to 
light and air. The Curators are doing all they can to get the Natural History 
Section ready for permanent opening to the public. Various rules will have 
to be framed in this connection, but it is unlikely that these will be of a definite 
character until the Museum Act has been amended by the Bombay Legislative 
Council and two members of the Society officially appointed to the Board of 
Trustees. 
Turning now to the work of the mammal survey, we regret to have to record 
the resignation through ill-health of Mr. Riley O’Brien who had been working in 
South India. His work had been greatly handicapped through continual attacks 
of malaria which finally incapacitated him from jungle work altogether. His 
place has been taken by a young collector, Charles McCann, who received his 
early training as a Naturalist and Collector under the keen eye of the Rev. 
Father Blatter, S. 3. Mr .McCann commenced his work on behalf of the Society by 
visiting Kanara and skinning and skeletonising a rogue tusker elephant which 
had been shot at Honavar. Mr. McCann was successful and skeleton and skin 
are now in the Society’s rooms awaiting the advent of a Vice-Patron of the 
Society to enable them to be mounted and exhibited in the Museum. Along 
with the skeleton and skin he brought a pair of tusks weighing 18 Ibs. Unfortu- 
nately the shikari who had shot the elephant claimed these tusks and as the Socie- 
ty could not afford to buy ivory at the market rate delicate negotiations had to 
be entered into to see what was the lowest figure the shikari would receive for the 
