182 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVII^ 



EDITORIAL. 



Members will learn with regret of the retirement of Mr. Millard from the 

 post of Honorary Secretary. Mr. Millard became Joint Honorary Secre- 

 tary with Mr. Phipson in 1898 and took on the work single handed when 

 the latter retired hi 1905, and he remained Honorary Secretary until April 

 1919 when he retired to England on medical advice. Those who have been 

 brought in contact with him realise the extent of the Society's obligation 

 for the manner in which he'.has conducted its affairs for the last 20 years. 

 To use his own words "To him it was a labour of love ". Unsparingly he 

 devoted his time and energy to the advancement of the Society's interests 

 and we are glad the Journal enables us to record the Society's gratitude. 



Although Mr. Millard has retired from India he is continuing to work 

 for the Society, and in England will act as our representative. There is a 

 great amount of work to be done at home in connection with the forth- 

 coming publications of the Society and with the selection and choice and 

 approval of plates. All this Mr. Millard will look after, and he will be in 

 close personal touch with the officials at the Natural History Museum and 

 at the Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Members in England who would 

 like to communicate with Mr. Millard on Society's business should address 

 correspondence to c/o Grindlay and Co., London. 



Another loss sustained by the Society has been the resignation of Mr. N. 

 B. Kinnear from his post as Keeper of the Museum and one of the Editor& 

 of the Journal. Mr. Kinnear joined us in 1907 and the care of the 

 Museum remained in his hands till October 1919 when he went to England 

 on 6 months' leave. Mr. Kinnear did splendid service for the Society not 

 merely in the Museum but also in the way he encouraged members to 

 collect for us and helped them in their difficulties. During the war Captain 

 Kinnear was Intelligence Staff Officer to the Bombay Brigade but, despite 

 the long hours of work this entailed, all his spare time from military duties- 

 was given to the Society. During the periods Mr. Millard was on leave 

 Mr. Kinnear acted as Joint Honorary Secretary, and at these times the 

 Editorial work of the Journal fell mainly on him. 



At a Committee meeting held on the 22nd of March 1920 it was resolved 

 that a vote of thanks be passed to Mr. Wroughton for his work on behalf 

 of the Society at the British Museum, particularly in connection with the 

 Mammal Survey. 



A similar vote was recorded in favour of Mr. T. B. Fry for his work at 

 the British Museum in keeping the registers and identification lists of the 

 Mammal Survey specimens sent home. 



The pages of this Journal have for several years past recorded some of 

 the work done by Mr. Wroughton, but only those actually working in 

 connection with the Society knew the amount of hard, willing, and en- 

 tirely honorary work these two old members have put in for the Society. 



We have recently received a letter expressing the thanks of the Trustees 

 of the British Museum for the donation of several interesting specimens. 

 These included mammals from India, Burma, Persia and Arabia, and among 

 them were the skin of a rare Flying Squirrel {Eupetaurus cinereus) from 

 Ohitral, a female example of the new form of Blood Pheasant (Itharjenes- 

 hurseri) from near Htawgaw, between the Kachin Hills and China, and 51 

 small mammals from Persia, collected by Col. J. E.B. Hotson, CLE. , in- 

 cluding the type of a new Bat {Myotis myotis risorius). 



Members resident in England will be interested to learn that the Com- 

 mittee have decided to open a Banking account in London in the name of 

 the Society, with the National Bank of India there, and to accept subscrip- 

 tions from members resident in England at two shillings exchange, so that 



