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should not exceed a month. Members wishing to send shikaries or boys to be 

 trained should communicate with the Honorary Secretary. 



In the Committee's report on the work of the Society published in No. 2 of 

 this volume mention was made of their desire to encourage the study of 

 Natural History in schools. We are glad to report that the Government of 

 Bombay are entertaining the idea and a Committee is being appointed by 

 Government to arrange a scheme of training for masters and mistresses in our 

 schools out here, who will in their turn instruct those in their charge. In 

 this connection we should like to give a word of praise and commendation to 

 the little illustrated books on Natural History and Plant Life for schools 

 written by F. M. & L. T. Duncan and published by the Oxford 

 University Press. We are also glad to learn that a member of the 

 Society has founded special prizes for the practical and theoretical study, 

 of Natural History a,t the schools of the Bombay Education Society. 



Since the above was written we have learnt with great regret of the death 

 ■of Mr. A. M. Kinloch, The late Mr. Kinloch was an old member of the 

 Society and a constant contributor to the Museum. A friend writing in 

 reference to his death says : " His death occurred here at Kotagiri under the 

 most tragic circumstances. He was on holiday and having wounded a big boar 

 in a beat, followed it up alone through thick scrub, was charged by the boar at 

 close quarters and killed instantly, the boar's tushes severing the femoral artery." 

 He was the eldest son of the late Major General A. A. Kinloch, the well known 

 sportsman and author of " Large Game Shooting in Tibet, Himalayas and 

 Northern India". Our sincerest condolences go out to Mrs. Kinloch and her 

 family in their sudden and tragic loss. 



