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Sugarcane ; Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. I, No. 5 ; Report of 

 the Department of Agriculture, Bombay Presidency, for 1904-1905 ; Season and 

 Crop Report of the Bombay Presidency for 1904-1905 ; Annual Report on the 

 Experimental Farms in the Bombay Presidency for the Year ending 31st March 

 1905 ; The Agricultural Journal of India, Vol. I, Part 1. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were then read : — ■ 



1. The Oology of Indian Parasitic Cuckoos, by E. C. Stuart .Baker, F.Z.S. 

 2. The Origin of Anonas, ' Anona squamosa L, Anona reticulata L.,' by Col.. 

 Fernando Leal. 3. On some new species of Silver Pheasants from Burma, by 

 Eugene W. Oates. 4. Sambur Horns, by J. D. Inverarity. 5. On the 

 Tenthredinidse and Parasitic Hymenoptera collected in Baluchistan by Major 

 C. G. Nurse, by P. Cameron. 6. What is a Species? by L. C. H. Young, B.A., 

 F.Z.S., &c. 7. Notes and observations on Mammals collected and observed 

 in the Darjeeling District, India, by Gordon Dalgliesh. 8. The " Pectinate 

 Organs " of Trapa bispinosa, Roxb. (Water-chestnut), by Rev. E. Blatter, S.J. 

 9. Mangroves and Paroquets, by B. B. Osmaston, I.F.S. 10. Note on the 

 Malay Tapir (Tapirus indicus) in captivity, by Col. W. B. Ferris. 11. Poison- 

 ous Snakes of India and how to recognise them, by Capt. F. Wall I.M.S 

 C.M.Z.S. 



PROCEEDINGS 

 OF THE MEETING HELD ON 15th MARCH 190G. 



A meeting of the members of the Bombay Natural History Society took 

 place at the Society's Rooms on the 15th March 190G, the Rev. F. Dreck- 

 mann, S.J., presiding. 



The election of the following 32 new members since last meeting was duly 

 announced :— Captain H. Innes, I M.S. (Barisal, E. Bengal) ; Mr. G. T. Raikes 

 (Karachi); Major J. W. Jennings, R.A.M.C. (Lucknow) ; Captain C.E. Luard 

 (Indore, C. I.); Mr. W. 1 . Palmer (Raheng, Fiam); Major-General F. A. 

 Buckley (Landour, Mussoorie) ; Mr. B. Egerton (Hyderabad, Deccan) ; 

 Mr. F. C. Purkis (Rangoon); Mr. M. D. Parsons (Myitkyina, U. Burma) • 

 Lieutenant W. P. C. Tenison, R.F.A. (Mian Mir) ; Mr. J. N. Fraser (Bombay) • 

 Mr. J. M. Haymann (Cawnpore) ; Dr. Adolf Lehmann (Bangalore) ; Captain 

 O. FitzGerald (Fort William, Calcutta) ; Mr. C. C. A. Prideaux (P. O. Ling- 

 sugur, Deccan) ; Mr. A. P. Doll (Khairatabad, Hyderabad, Deccan) ; Captain 

 E. C. Doughty (Bellary) ; Mr. R. Parnell, I.F.S. (Lahore) ; Mr. H. G. Wyatt 

 (Lahore) ; Mr. W. F. Dew, J. P. (Ceylon) ; Mr. C. O. Lowsley (Jacobabad. 

 Sind) ; Mr. W. Swain (Bhagalpore, E. I. Railway) ; Captain J. R. Tyrrell, I.M.S 

 (Ajmer) ; Lieutenant-Colonel B. W. Marlow (Poona) ; Mr. P. M. Lushino-ton 

 (Mannantoddy, North Malabar); Mr. H. H. Marshall, L.R.C.S. (Mandalay); 

 Major J. L. Macrae, I.M.S. (Meiktila, Burma) ; Mrs. C. S. Stack (Poona) ; Mr! 

 P. G. Tipping (Sidnapur, Coorg) ; The Mess President, 85th Regiment 



