196 JOURNAL, BOMBA Y NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIV^ 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S MUSEUM, 

 Mr. H, M. Phipson, the honorary secretary, acknowledges receipt of the 

 following contributions to the Society's Museum since the last meeting : — 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



SPECIMENS OF BLOOD. 



The honorary secretary read a letter from Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall, Lecturer 

 in Bacteriology at Cambridga, asking members of the Bombay Natural His- 

 tory Society to help him to obtain specimens of the blood of all vertebrates 

 (mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and batrachians) to enable him to carry on the 

 researches in which he is at present engaged. The results obtained from an 

 extended series of bloods have given such striking reacti' na that the study 

 requires to be taken up on a larger scale, and the help of naturalist 

 and sportsmen in all parts of the world is now being solicited. The 

 method of collecting dried specimens of blood, on strips of filter paper 

 is exceedingly simple, and full details will be sent by the honorary secretary 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society to all those who are willing to assist. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were read and discussed: — The Earwigs of Ceylon, 

 by Malcolm Burr ; Memoirs on Oriental Rhynchota, by G. W. Kirkaldy, 

 F.E.S, ; Nidification of the Desert Sand-Lark, by H. Bulkley : A Rare 

 Snake, by Major A. E. McMahon, C.I.E., C.S.I. ; The Banded Crake 

 at Khandalla,by Major R. M. Betham ; On the New Species of Butterflies 

 recently described by Mr. A. G. Butler, by Major N. Manders, R.A.M.C. ; 

 Our Collection of Indian Snakes, by Rev. F. Dreckmann (S.J.) and Mr. H. 

 M. Phipson. 



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