EDITORIAL. 523 
honour of presenting the tusks to the Society, and what was tho highest figure 
the Society could go to show its appreciation of the shikari’s services. The result 
of the negotiation was that the tusks became the property of the Society 
on payment of Rs. 50. Mr. Wells has been in Bombay during Mr. Ellison’s 
absence with the Prince and his help with the Society’s collections has been 
greatly appreciated. The medical authorities have now certified him as clear 
of malarial infection and he has left for the Punjab to work in the neigh- 
bourhood of Dharamsala. His work will be greatly facilitated by the assistance 
kindly promised by the various Government officials there, and we take this 
early opportunity of thanking them and, more especially, Mr. Hugh Whistler 
for their valuable advice and help. 
A collection sent over from Mergui by Mr. Primrose has given great pleasure 
to the Society’s Curators and will, we hope, do the same to the authorities at 
the British Museum. It shows how much can be done under difficulties and the 
difficulties experienced in working amongst the Islands of Mergui, Archipelago, 
are many and varied. A description of these will be given in the papers dealing 
with Mr. Primrose’s collections. A collector’s difficulties of a different nature 
are humourously referred to elsewhere in a paper entitled ‘“ In Lighter Vein.” 
The first two volumes of the Game Birds of India have at last materialised 
and are now in subscribers’ hands, and we hope the pleasure of receiving these 
splendid books has obliterated all remembrances of the long delay. We hope 
these books will be the means of bringing many new members to the Society 
as though the Booksellers in this country have converted the English price 
into rupees at the good exchange of 1/4 and it is cheaper for those in India to 
buy the book in India rather than in England (the reverse is of course the case 
for those in England) there is a good reduction off the published price given to 
members, though this is naturally not as much as is given to the original sub- 
scribers who, by subscribing, enabled publication to be undertaken. We con- 
gratulate Mr. Stuart Baker on the publication of these fine volumes, and we 
also, on behalf of the subscribers, express our very cordial thanks to Mr. 
- Millard for all the work he has done. 
The Editor who has written these notes would like to congratulate his brother 
editors, Messrs. Ellison and Prater, not on their not having written them though 
perhaps such would be a matter of congratulation, but on their appointment 
as Corresponding Members of the Zoological Society. Their position and work 
enables them to do a great deal for the Zoological Society of London and they 
are carrying on the work of their predecessor Mr. N. B. Kinnear and of Mr. 
H. M. Phipson and Mr. W. S. Millard. Whilst on the subject of the Zoological 
Society of London we would advise members that the gardens at Regents Park 
are urgently in need of live animals. Or. Chalmers Mitchell in forwarding a 
list of animals wanted by the Zoo mentions the following :—Young Elephants 
and Rhinos, Tigers, Swamp Deer, (Stags especially), Black Buck, Nilghai, Takin, 
Goral, Serow, Tahr, Markhor, Barhals, Wild Dogs. Among the birds he mentions 
Pheasants and Hornbills; he adds that no Lions, Leopards or Cattle are wanted. 
Will members who are willing and able to present any of those, correspond 
with the Curators of the Bombay Natural History Society as to the necessary 
arrangements to be made to send the animals home, 
R. A. SPENCE. 
