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The wound over the shoulder is clean and filling up and is evidently in a 

 healthy state. 



The scalp wound. — As a large portion of the bone is without its covering 

 (periasteum) some doubt exists as to its ultimately being covered up. Some 

 healthy granulations have however sprung up from under the remaining 

 portions of the scalp which are creeping up from several points over the bare 

 skull, and some hope therefore is entertained of the patient's ultimate re- 

 covery, but at the present stage it is hard to tell. 



The patient is to-day (15th September) much stronger, walking about and 

 in the enjoyment of good health. 



Whether the whole of the skull will eventually get covered up or not is 

 yet to be seen, but I am more hopeful to-day than I have ever been since 

 his admission." 



The day following that on which the accident happened Captain Collins 

 of the West Kent Territorial Regiment, now stationed at Mount Abu, went 

 out to the place to try and find the obnoxious family but only succeeded in 

 finding the unfortunate man's scalp (quite dry) still lying in the nullah. 



The late Colonel Richard Irving Dodge of the United States Army in his 

 interesting book, " Hunting grounds of the Great West," cites many cases in 

 which men scalped by Indians have completely recovered and on page 399 

 he says, " Scalping is not fatal. I have known several persons alive and 

 in good health who had undergone the process." 



R. H. HEATH. 

 Sababmati, 

 2Uh September 1915. 



No. v.— ALTITUDE TO WHICH ELEPHANTS ASCEND. 



I am able to confirm the late Mr. Tinne's note on this subject, 

 quoted by Mr. Shebbeare in your last Nvimber Vol. XXIII, p. 770. In 

 August 1886 1 made a trip with Mr. Prestage from Darjeeling up the 

 Rishilah or Rechila with the object of finding a shorter and better route into 

 the Chumbi Valley. For some miles the only path that then existed was 

 made by wild elephants, and our camp below the summit at about 9,000 feet, 

 was disturbed in the night by a herd. On the top at about 10,400 feet, the 

 sheep which we had taken with us for food was killed by a tiger, and this is 

 the highest elevation I know of on record for tigers. But I was assured by 

 my friend, the late Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., that on one of his botanical 

 expeditions into Eastern Sikkim, he had seen elephants' tracks in the snow 

 at about 12,000 feet, which must have been made by elephants coming from 

 British Bhutan over or round the shoulder of the Richilah. 



H. J. EL WES. 



COLESBORNB, ENGLAND, 



26f^ June 1915. 



No. VI.— CHASE OF CHINKARA BUCK {GAZELLA BENNETTI) 



BY ANOTHER. 



I recently had a good chance of watching the chase of one chinkara buck 

 by another. It was in April in the Banda district. I was strolling out 

 early alone in the hope of chancing on a blue bull. It was as yet barely 

 light and I heard the noise of galloping hoofs some time before 1 saw the 

 animals. When I saw them first, they were coming in my direction, I 

 stood still and they passed me at full speed within thirty yards. The leader 



