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doubt introduced), and there is certainly a Japanese specimen of Temminck's 

 in the Paris Museum. The Eing-necked Pheasant (^Fhasianics torquitus) antf 

 Silver Pheasant {Gennceus nycthemerus) are frequently brought over from. 

 China an is the Golden Pheasant {Chrysolophus pictus), the male of which 

 often has a hen of P. torquatus assigned to him as a companion. The male 

 Golden Pheasant occurs in the old picture to which I alluded at the- 

 commencement of the present paper, so that it may fairly claim to have been 

 one of the earliest fancy birds exported from its own country. 

 {^The above appeared in " The Ihis.''). 



THE LATE Mr. OLIVER COLLETT. 



The untimely death of Mr. Oliver Collett, on the 10th June, at the early 

 age of thirty-five, deprives our Society of a member who was keenly interested 

 in Natural Science, — more particularly in the Biological branches. He was an 

 enthusiastic student of Terrestrial Mollusca, and presented many Ceylonese 

 species to the Museum of the Society. He formed an almost complete collec- 

 tion of the land shells of Ceylon and of the animals that occupy them. It is 

 hoped that all this material will be acquired by the Colombo Museum. Mr. 

 Collett was the -author of various papers on the subject in the Malacological 

 journals ard discovered many new species, some of which bear his name, 

 e.g., Cataulus colletH, Cyafhopoma colletti, Gorilla coUetti, Kcdiella coUetti, and-, 

 Euplecta collett'i. 



As a tea-planter, Mr. Collett directed his attention to economic questions, 

 such as the several fungus blights of the tea plant, the action of enzymes and 

 the processes of tea manufacture, &c. 



Mr. Collett was born at Stratford-on-Avon in the year 1887 ; was educated, 

 at Dedham Grammar School ; and came out to Ceylon in 1887. In addition 

 to the Bombay Natural History Society, be was a Fellow of the Pioyal Micros-. 

 eopical Society, the Malacological Society and a member of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society. 



Mr. Collett, by his sterling character as well as by his charming personality, 

 endeared himself to all who knew him His sudden death, from an enterie 

 disease, is very desply deplored by his many friends. 



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