PROCEEDINGS. 



321 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



3 Bird-eating Spiders 



(alive). 

 1 Skin of the Crested 



Grebe. 

 1 Egg of do. 



1 Egg of Bustard 



1 Eight-Legged Puppy ... 



24 Birds' Skins 



1 Jungle Cat 



1 Kingfisher (alive) 



1 Bittern 



1 Cobra ,. 



Mygale fusciatus 



Podiceps cristatus 



From Kharaghora..., 



Eupodotis edwardsi 



Canis familiaris 



From Central Provinces 



Felix chaus 



Halcyon smyrnensis 



Botanrus stellaris 



Naga tripudians 



Mr. H. R. P. Carter. 

 Mr. H. Bulkley. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Miss Hale. 

 Mr. N. S. Symons. 



Do. 

 Captain Mitchell. 

 Mr. W. Murray. 

 Major Gerald Martin. 



MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS. 



From Colonel K. Mackenzie, Mr. W. Shipp, Captain Shopland, and Mr. V. H 

 Pathare. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



" Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects of the Oriental Region " (Bigot), from the 

 Author ; " La Nature," for 1890-91, from Dr. W. Dymock ; " The Indian Forester " 

 —No. 12, in exchange ; " A Monograph of the Oriental Cicadidae " (Distant), Fart 

 IV., in exchange ; " Indian Museum Notes," Vol. II., in exchange ; " The Fauna of 

 British India— Mammalia," Part II., (Blandford), from the Author. "North Aroe- 

 rican Fauna," No. 5, in exchange, 



THE CRESTED GREBE. 



Special attention was drawn to the skin and egg of the Crested Grebe received 

 from Mr. H. Bulkley, of Kharaghora, where the bird was found breeding in August 

 last. This is the first instance on record of the Crested Grebe having been found 

 nesting in India. 



AN EXHIBIT. 



Mr. M. C. Turner exhibited a beautiful specimen of a large white orchid {Angra ■ 

 cum sesquipedate) , from Madagascar, which was greatly admired, and read a short 

 paper on the difficulties which attend the successful culture of orchids in Bombay. 



THE MAMMALIA OF SOMALI-LAND. 



The Honorary Secretary read the continuation of Mr. J. D. Inverarity's interesting 

 paper on Soraali-Land, containing an account of his two sporting tours in that 

 country. 



The following papers werealso read : — "The Protection of Game in Sind," by W. S • 

 Hexton. " The Butterflies of Travancore," by H. S. Ferguson, F.L.S. " Note on 

 Cassia grandis and Cassia viarginata," by G. M. Woodrow. "Branching Palms and 

 Tree-Ferns," by L. de Nic^ville. " The Protection of Larvae," by E. H. Aitken. 



Doctor Maconachie proposed a vote of tbanks to the authors of the various papers, 

 and the meeting then ended. 

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