898 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XX. 



LLBKARY. 



The Honorary Librarian, Mr. B. D. Richards, acknowledged amongst 

 recent additions to the Library : — 



The " Ibis " 1890—1902 presented by Mr. E. Comber. 



Catalogue of Birds' Eggs — 4 Volumes presented by Trustees of British 

 Museum. 



" Rhopalocera Malayana," by W. L. Distant, purchased, 



and certain back parts of the " Avicultural Magazine," presented by 

 Major Rodon. 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. L. H. Savile exhibited specimens of a tree stump from the Bombay 

 Harbour and enlarged photographs of the trees in situ. 



Mr. W. S. Millard exhibited a few new plants introduced into Bombay, 

 namely, Gloriosa rothschildiana, Odontodenia harrisii, Clerodendron urticaefolia, 

 Tecoma smithi and Musa coccinea, all in flower ; and the foliage plants 

 Dieffenbachia majesticus and splendens, Tococa latifolia, Nepenthes master- 

 siana, Phoznix rcebelini, Dracaena sanderiana and broomfieldi, Musa vittata, 

 Cissus causterlii, Heliconia Edioardus Rex, and young specimens of the hand- 

 some flowering tree Gliricidia maculata and the candle-tree Parmentiera 

 cereifera, the last two having been raised from seeds received from 

 Peradeniya. 



PAPERS READ. 

 Note on Prehistoric Tree-stumps discovered in Bombay Harbour. 



Mr. L. H. Savile said : — The note on prehistoric tree stumps discovered 

 in the Bombay Harbour records the finding of 4 trees of a species of Acacia, 

 embedded in the blue clay which overlies the rock moorum at a depth of 

 40 feet below the . level of high water spring tides. The position of these 

 trees, which was shown on a plan, is nearly half a mile from what a few 

 years ago was the foreshore opposite St. George's Hospital. 



Reference was made to a paper by W. E. Hart on "Prehistoric Bombay," 

 which mentions the finding of similar trees in the excavation from Prince's 

 Dock, and the present discovery goes to. confirm the conclusion arrived at 

 by Mr. Hart that our present Bombay has experienced at least two 

 upheavals and subsequent subsidences before as a single Island — 



" She rose, as did of old, the Goddess of Beauty from the sea!" 



Note on the varieties of Hibiscus cultivated in Gardens. 



Mr. W. S. Millard said he need hardly apologise for introducing an 

 Horticultural subject, as it was impossible to separate Horticulture from 

 Botany or from Agriculture. It was recognized almost everywhere now 

 that these sister subjects must advance hand-in-hand, and it was only on 



