PROCEEDINGS. 633 



Contributions. Description. Contributors. 



1 Skin of Flying Squirrel.. JPiJerowys oral Capt. H. H. Harington. 



2 Skins of Tree Shrews Ttipa'aferruginea I Do. 



8 Skins of Bamboos Eats.... 'i2/i«2o??j?/s &afZms I Do. 



1 Snake (alive) Tropidonotus piscator Mr. C. Glover-Wright. 



1 Hamadryad Quv.) ..., 'Naia hungarus .....Mr. P. W. Mackinnon. 



MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS. 

 From Mr. J. McGlashan, Mr, E. C. Cholmondeley, and Captain E, O'Brien. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBEARY. 



Entomological Society's Proceedings, 1901 ....,.,.. «, ....In exchange. 



Illustrations of Indian Botany, Vol. I Col, P. Baddeley. 



Descriptions of some New Species of Orchideal from North- 



West and Central India, by J. P. Duthie, B.A., F.L.S The Author, 



Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol, I ,, 



Part III The Author. 



On some cases of abrupt variation in Indian Birds, by F, 



Finn, B,A,, F,Z.S The Author. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LXXI, Part II, 



No. 1, 1902 In exchange. 



Report of the Zoological Gardens, Ghizeh, near Cairo, for 1901 



The Mammals of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Smithsonian 



Institution. 

 PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were then read and discussed :—'" Small Game Shoot- 

 ing Prospects in Western India," 1901-02, by Lieut.-Col. H. D, Olivier, R.E„ 

 F.Z,S, ; " White Ants' Castles," by G, P. Millett, I,F,S, ; " Curious course 

 taken by the Hyoid Cornua or tongue muscles in certain Woodpeckers," by 

 B, B, Osmaston, I,F.S, ; " Indian Hobby (?) and Bulbul," by E, Ernest Green, 

 F.E.S. ; " Food of the Krait," by Vet.-Capt. G. H, Evans ; " The Camel Bot- 

 Fly," by Major C, G, Nurse, F.R,G,S,, F.E.S. ; " Sword Fish striking a Ship," 

 by Capt. F. A. Smith, M.D., I.M.S. 



The papers will appear in full in the Society's Journal. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON 19TH AUGUST, 1902. 



A meeting of the members was held at the Society's Rooms on Tuesday, the 

 19th August, 1902, Colonel H. D. Olivier, R,E,, F.Z,S,, presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 The election of the following new members was announced : — 

 Major J. R. Loudon, (Singapore) ; Mr, G. E. S. Cubitt, (Maymyo, Upper 

 Burma) ; Mr. H. S. Cameron, (Ceylon) ; Mr. W. 0. Alcock, I.CS,, (Prantij, 

 Ahmedabad) ; and Mr, Francis W. Gore, (Sibsngar, Assam). 



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