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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON 17th DECEMBEK, 1901. 



A meeting of the members of the above was held on Tuesday, 17th Decem- 

 ber 1901, Major D, Prain, I.M.S,, presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS, 



The election of the following new members was then announced : — 



Mr. L. C, H. Young (Bombay) ; Lieutenant L. C, Brodie (Trimulgherry) ; 

 Mr. W. A. Conduit, C.E. (Seoni District, C. P.) ; Captain C. H. Lincoln, 

 I.M.S. (Bombay) ; Major R. E. S. Davis, I.M.S. (Rangoon) ; and Mr. J. A. 

 B. Ball ^Umballa). 



Mr. H. M. Phipson, the Honorary Secretary, acknowledged receipt of the 

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



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



1 Palm Civet (alive) . 

 1 do. do. 



a do. do. . 



A Collection of Moths. 



Lizard's Eggs 



1 Snate 



1 Woodcock 



1 Krait 



Paradoxurus niger 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Lycodon aulicus ,,.. 

 Scoliipax rtistifola 

 Bungavus ccerulons. 



Mr. E. W. Thompson. 

 Mr. Fazalbhny Laljee. 

 Mr. Paul Girhardt. 



Do. 

 Mr. M. Loam. 

 Mr. H. Stauber. 

 Major G. A. Leslie, K.E. 

 Mr. J. Sliven, 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRAEY. 



The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, Part I, by Theodore Cooke, C.I.B. 

 (from the author) ; the Distribution of Vertebrate Animals in India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma, by W. T. Blanford, F. R. S. (from the author) ; Catalogue of the 

 Indian Decapod Crustacea in the collection of the Indian Museum (Part I, 

 Brach)ura), from the 'I'rustees ; the Coleoptera of South Africa (Peringuey) ; 

 Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Vol. IX, Part I ; and Living 

 Animals of the World, Parts I to VIII (from Mr. William Phipson). 

 THE VICTORIA GARDENS. 



The Honorary Secretary drew the attention of the members to the new and 

 extensive aquatic aviary which had been completed at the Victoria Gardens, 

 and expressed a hope that members who were in a position to obtain speci- 

 mens of wild ducks, geese, swans, pelicans, flamingoes, storks, cranes, &c., 

 would communicate with the Superintendent of the Gardens, 



DEATH OF Mk. L. Be NICEVILLE. 

 The Honorary Secretary stated that the Society bad suffered a heavy loS3 

 through the death of Mr. L. de Niceville, the well-known lepidopterist, which 

 took place in Calcutta on the 4th instant. Mr. de Niceville had been an 

 important contributor to the Bombay Natural History Society's Journal since 

 1887, as reference to the (Jeneral Index of Vols. I to XIII (published in No. 5 

 of Vol. XlII) would show. Looking back through the back numbers of the 

 Society's Journal, members would find 34 coloured plates of Oriental butter- 



