252 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVII. 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



1 Snake from Matheran ... 

 1 Dhamarj 



1 Palru Civet, juv., alive ... 



2 Snakes 



A number of interesting- 

 Butterflies from Assam. 



1 Great Crested Grebe 



Some marine shells from 

 Zanzibar. 



1 Gadwall, juv 



1 Great Indian Bustard 



Some specimens of clays 



from the Mysore laterite 



1 Field Rat from Nepal .. . 



1 Black-capped Kingfisher. 



Lycodon travancoricus Major L. Chilrle, I. M.S. 



Zamenis mucosus ...Major F. Lee. 



Paradoxurns n-iger 

 Distira orna f a and Platn- 

 rus laticaudatus 



Podiceps eristatns , 



Chavlelasmvt streperw. 

 Eupndotis edwardsii .... 



Mus zp , 



Ha ley on piUata . 



Mr. D. J. de Souza. 



Capt. P. Wall, I.M.S.,. 



C.M.Z.S. 

 Mrs. Jackson. 



Hon'ble A. E. Hill-Trevor. 

 Lieut.-Col. C. T. Peters, 



I. M.S. 

 ) Major H. H. the Maha- 

 \ rajah of Bikanir. 

 Mr. L. C. H. Young. 



Major J. Manners-Smith. 

 Mr. W. F. Jardine. 



Minor contributions from Mr. J. W. Hawes, Colonel W. B. Ferris, Captain 

 L. T. H. Hutchinson, I.M.S., and Mr. F. G. Hutchinson. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. III., Part X, presented by the Colombo Museum ; 

 Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Yol. I, Nos. 3, 4, 5 

 6, and 7, 1905, in exchange ; The Indian Forester, for August, September and 

 October ; Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1903, in exchange ; 

 Bulletin de la Societe Royal de Botanique a Bruxelles, 1904-05 ; Bulletin de la 

 Societe Royal de Botanique de Belgique, 1904-05 ; Annals of the Royal' 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Vol. X, Part II. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were read : — Pearls in the Thana Creek, by E. L. Sale, 

 I.C.S. ; Note on two Black Leopards in the Kolhapur Collection, by Lt.-Col. W.. 

 B. Ferris, with photographs ; Report on the Destruction of Rats in Rangoon 

 during August 1905, by H. Tilly. 



Mr. Comber in reading this paper said that it contained some valuable inform- 

 ation on that unknown subject the breeding time of rats — a most important 

 matter in these days — when rats were supposed to be one of the principal 

 mediums in carrying plague. It was hoped that the Bombay efforts at the 

 Parel Laboratory in the same direction would also contribute valuable inform- 

 ation on this subject. 



Capt. G. Lamb, I.M.S., read a paper on snake venoms and their antidotes, an 

 account of recent research, and in the course of his remarks demonstrated 

 with live specimens, the methods of extracting the venom from the Cobra and 

 the Daboia, and of working with it. He pointed out the differences which have 

 been shown to exist between the poisons of the different species, and gave a 

 short account of the recent researches which have been made as regards the- 

 physiological actions of the different poisons. 



