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1905 ; Report on the Administration of the Government Museum and Conne- 

 mai a Public Library, 1905-1906; The Indian Forester, Vol. XXXII, Nos. 7 

 and 8 ; New Mollusca, from the Persian Gulf, etc., On Malluvium ; Memoirs 

 of the Department of Agriculture in India, Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 ; A Note on 

 the Life History of Hop'oceramby spinicornis ; Notes on the Malayan Pigs ; 

 The Mammals of Engano Island, West Sumatra ; Mammals collected by 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Karimata Islands, Dutch East Indies, and Contribu- 

 tions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. X, Parts I and II. 



PAPERS READ. 



Some remarks on the decadence of Estuary Fishing, as an industry in the 

 Ivonkan, by W. A. Wallinger. 



The Rev. F. Dreckmann, in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Wallinger who 

 had so kindly come down from Dharwar to read this paper, said how this Society 

 from a scientific point of view hoped with Mr. Wallinger that Government 

 may shortly find it possible to introduce some legislation to protect the small 

 fry and so prevent the danger of the extermination of species of fish which 

 is at present apparently threatened. Such legislation is at present in force in 

 England and on the Continent of Europe, which from time to time has pre- 

 scribed that the meshes of nets must not be smaller than a stipulated size. 

 The thanks of the Society are aho due to Mr. Wallinger for the excellent 

 miniature examples exhibited of the nets at present used by the Estuary 

 fishers in the Kulaba Di3tricc and for the specimens of fishes which he had 

 collected and wtre now on the table before them. 



The following papers were also read: — A note on an edible Puff-ball from the 

 Thana District, by Lieut.-Colonel K. R. Kirtikar. I.M.S. (Ret.), F.L.S. ; 

 Some new birds' nests from Tibet, with notes from Colonel A. E. Ward and 

 Lieut. F. M. Bailey, by H. Macnaghten, B.A. ; A Mouse-Hare, by Major G. S. 

 Rodon ; and Locusts, Bears and Dogs, by Major G. S. Rodon. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON THE 13th DECEMBER 1906. 

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

 place at the Society's Rooms on the 13th December, 1906, Mr. John Wallace, 

 C.E., presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The election of the following 26 new members since the last meeting was 

 duly announced : — 



Mr. N. E. Marjoribanks, I C.S. (Madras) ; Mr. A. W. Marshall (Bombay) ; 

 Major J. Shakespear (Manipur) ; Capt. F. W. Barrett (Muttra) ; Mr. C. I. 

 Ainslie (Bombay) ; Major R M. Lowis (Umballa) ; Lieut. J. C. Pickersgill- 

 Cunliffe (Diyatalawa, Ceylon) ; Mr. J. Gerard Bendien (Bombay) ; Mr. O. C. 

 Ollenbach (Dehra Dun, U. P.) ; Mr. E. S. Drury (Thayetmyo, Burma) ; Mr. 



