538 JO UENAL, BOMB A T NA TUBAL HISTOR Y SOCIETY, Vol X 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributors. 



1 Jackal (alive) 



Some Coralmes and Corals ... 

 A number of Scorpions 

 1 Cobra (alive) 



1 Oceanic Teal 



1 Four-legged Chicken 

 1 Daboia (alive) 



1 Snake 



2 Zebras' skulls 



A collection of Fossils from 



Kurrachee 



1 Albino Snipe 



1 Eed-crested Pocbard 



A number of Scorpions from 



Sind... 



1 Madras Tree-shrew 



i Short-nosed Fruit Bat 



1 Megapode 



1 Snake 



A number of Scorpions from 



Khandesh 

 1 Eock Perch 

 A number of Land Shells from 



the Satpuras 



Canis aureus 



Naja tripudians 

 Querquedula gibberif rons . 



Vipera rus^^elii 

 Lycodon aulicus 

 Equus zebra 



Gallinago gallinaria 

 Fuligula rufina 



Tupia ellioti 

 Cynopterus marginatus 

 Megapodius nicobaricus 

 Lycodon aulicus ... 



Serranus lanceolatus 



Dr. A. de Monte. 

 Mr. W. W. Squire. 

 Mr. J. B. D. Adams. 

 Surg.-Maj. K. K. Kirtikar. 

 Major F. Graham. 

 Mr. H. Bulkley. 

 Surg.-Maj. K, R. Kirtikar. 

 Dr. T. Nariman. 

 Mr. A. Trevor. 



Mr. S. P. Leggetfc. 

 Surg.-Maj . H . V . Harington. 

 Maj. W. Richardson, 



Mr. G. M. Ryan. 

 Mr. Rob. Wroughton. 

 Mr. F.Gleadow. 

 Mr. Wood, R.I.M. 

 Mr. J. W. Hind. 



Mr. R. H. Madan. 

 Mr. A. Corrodi. 



Mr. H. Godwin-Austen. 



THE ACCOUNTS FOR 1895. 



Mr. A, Abercrombie, the Honorary Treasurer, laid before the meeting the 

 accounts of the Society for the year ending 31st December, 1895, showing 

 that while the receipts amounted to Es, 16,123-8-6, the disbursements were 

 Rs. 14,433-5-11, leaving a balance in favour of the Society of Rs. 1,690-2-7. 

 The Society also possessed a Reserve Fund of Rs. 4,000 inve?,ted in Government 

 Paper, and the value of the back numl ers of the journal, estimated at the 

 reduced rate at which they were sold to members, was Rs. 7,270. 



It was resolved that the accounts be passed, subject to the usual audit. 

 PAPERS READ. 



The following paperk were then read and discussed : — 1, Notes on the 

 Indian Wild Dog, by J. D, Inverarity. 2, The Sheula Plant [AmorpJiophalus 

 commutatus) and its correct description, by Dr. J. C. Lisboa. 3, The Butter- 

 flies of Mussooree and neighbouring regions, by P. W. Mackinnon and L. 

 de Niceville. 4. On some Earth Worms from India, by Sophia M. Fedarb. 

 5. Birds collected during five years' residence in the Hylakandy district, 

 Cachar, by C. M. inglis. Ivliscellaneous Notes :—(a) Notes from Deesa, by W. 

 Light ; (6) Strange Behaviour of Crows, by W. Sutherland. 



The Honorary Secretary drew attention to the giant clam shells presented 

 by Captain J. E. Williams of the S.S. Changsha, one of which weighed 180 lbs. 



Mr, W. Plunkett, Conservator of Forests, exhibited the skin of a black 

 panther killed in the neighbourhood of Nasik. 



Mr. H. Littledale announced that he had recently killed a tigress in the 

 Baroda jungles and captured her four cubs alive. Two of the cubs were 

 males and two females. 



