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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON 4th OCTOBER 1906. 



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



place at the Society's Rooms on 4th October 1906, the Revd. F. Dreckmann, 



S.J., presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The election of the following 23 new members since the last meeting was 

 duly announced : — 



Rev. M. B. Carleton, M.D. (Subathu, Punjab) ; Mr. S. R. Hignell, I C.S. 

 (Daltonganj, E. I. Ry.) ; Mr. W. D. Hall (Bombay) ; Mr. W. H. Brady 

 (Bombay) ; The Mess President, 32nd Pioneers (Ambala) ; Lieut.-Col. C. J. 

 Bamber, I.M.S. (Simla); Mr. A. L. Hetherington, B.A., F.C.S. (Rangoon) ; 

 Mr. J. K. Williams (Nasik) ; The Honorary Secretary, Officers' Mess, R.F.A., 

 Hyderabad (Hyderabad, Sind) ; Capt. J. G. Berne, R.A.M.C. (Jubbulpore, C.P.); 

 Mr. B. D. Richards (Bombay); Mr. E. Priestly (lhana) ; Major A. W. 

 Newbold (Kohat) ; Lieut. J. Catto, I.M.S. (Manipur) ; Capt. T. W. H. Jones 

 (Poona) ; Mr. R. Barton Wright (Sivaganja P. O., Madura Dist.) ; Mr. Percy 

 C. Evans (Bindgei, Lankat, Sumatra) ; Capt. R. Steen, I.M.S. (Gyantse, 

 Tibet); Mr. J. E. H. Hasted v Madras); Mr. S. W. Smyth (Kindat, Upper 

 Burma); Mr. Wm. ^killing (MussoorieJ ; Lieut. W. H. Ralston (Tientsin, 

 North China) ; and Capt. N. W. Mackworth, I.M.S. (Tientsin, North China). 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 

 The Honorary Secretary, Mr. W. S. Millard, acknowledged receipt of the 

 following : — 



Contributions. 



Description. 



Contributors and 

 Locality. 



A small collection of otoliths 



or eai bones of fishes. 

 1 Sea Snake 



8 Snakes 



82 Bird skins 



1 Snail shell 



1 Skin abd skull of the Hi- 

 malayan Palm Civet 

 (juv> 



A number of fresh water 

 and Marine Shell?. 



5 Eggs of Tibetan Partridge. 



1 Egg of Ibisbill 



2 Eggs of Bevertzoffs Rose 



Finch. 

 2 Eggs of beautiful Rose 



Finch. 

 2 Tibetan Snow-Cock 



6 Eggs of Eastern Twite ... 



38~~" 



Enhydrina valakadien 



Zaorys nigromarginatv,x s Ly 

 coclnn aulirvs, Simotes sp., 

 Polyodontophis collaris i 



Aohatina fulica 

 Paradoxu^us grayi... 



Perdix hodgsonice ... 

 Ibidtrhynchus stutherxi 

 Carpodacvs nevertzoffi 



Prnpasser puloerrimus 



Tetnogallns tibetanus 

 Acantkis brevirostris 



Mrs. S. Joyce, Bombay. 



Mr. C. E. Rhenius, Ram- 

 nod, Madura District. 



! Maior A. Begbie, Cal- 

 j cutta. 



J 



Mr. G. B. Scott, Naini Tal. 



M. E. Dalgliesb, Tirhoot, 



Bengal and Japan. 

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-Lieut. F. M. Bailey* 



Gyantse, Tibet. 



