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



Minor contributions from Mr. H. E. Watson, Mr. A. J. Agabeg, Mr. C. 

 Grenville Rollo, Mr. J. A. Jeffries. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bulletin (an outbreak of Cotton Pests 

 in the Punjab, 1905). 



The Indian Forester, Vol. XXXII, Nos. 3 and 4. 



Records of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XXXIII, Parts 2 and 8. 



The Agricultural Journal of India, Vol. I, Part II. 



Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, No. 1, Vol. I. 



Entomological Series, Vol. I, No. 1. The Bombay Locusts, by H. Maxwell 

 Lefroy. 



Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1905. 



Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. I., No. 10. 



Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. III., Part XII. 



Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. I., Nos, 8, 9, 

 and 10, and extra number, 1905, Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 1906. 



The Decennial Publications, Colors and Color patterns of Coleoptera. 



Description Geologique de l'He d'Amben. 



Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. 



Catalogue of the Indian decapod Crustacea in the collection of the Indian 

 Museum. 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1904. 



Annual Report of the Board of Scientific Advice for India for 1904-05, 



The Agricultural Ledger, 1905, No. 6. 



ALTERATION TO RULE V. 



The Committee notified that in future Rule V. will read as follows : — " Any 

 member may, on payment of Rs. 200, become a Life member, and "will there- 

 after be exempt from any further subscriptions." 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Comber exhibited a small collection of mammals from Japan that has 

 been presented to the Society by the Trustees of the British Museum in ex- 

 change for various contributions from the Society's collections. It consists of 

 17 specimens of squirrels, mice, voles and bats from the collections lately pre- 

 sented to the British Museum by the Duke of Bedford, who has employed a 

 special collector to investigate the fauna of Eastern Asia. Mr. Comber ex- 

 plained that although these specimens are from a part of Asia that is outside 

 the strict field of the Society's work, they are not only a useful object lesson to 

 members as to how such specimens should be made up nicely, but are particu- 

 larly interesting as showing how the practically European, and even English, 

 fauna extends to the furthest parts of the Palasarctic region, as the squirrel, 

 represented by two specimens, proves to be not eVen specifically distinct from 

 the common English species, though it has been honoured with sub-specific 

 rank. As another similarly allied form, or sub-species, has heen recorded by 



