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Les Formicides de Madagascar, par M. Forel ... : ; Presented by 
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. II, Part I, In exchange. 
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PAPERS RHAD. 
Mr. A. Abercrombie read extracts from a paper he had written for the 
Society’s Journal on the Common Marine Shells of the Bombay Coast, and 
illustrated his remarks with specimens from a collection made .by him in the 
immediate vicinity of Bombay. This local collection consists of 320 distinct 
species, all of which had been identified by Mr. Abercrombie with the assist- 
ance of the authorities at the British Museum. 
The following miscellaneous notes were also read :— 
(a) Notes on Indian Dogs, F. E. Dempster ; (0) Shooting Notes, Major 
E. F. Becher ; (c) Birds observed breeding in Kharagora, H. Bulkley ; (@) 
The habits of the Coppersmith, HE. H. Aitken ; (¢) Where do Swallows sleep ? 
K. H, Aitken. 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE MEETING HELD ON 13rm NOVEMBER, 1893. 
A meeting of the members took place on Monday the 13th November, 
at the Society’s room, Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Maconachie 
presiding. 
NEW MEMBERS, 
The following gentlemen were duly elected members of the Society :—The 
Honorary Secretary, Government Museum and Public Gardens (Trivandrum), 
Mr. C. C. Philpott (Rangoon), Mr. C. D. Twopenny (Cashmere), Mr. H. C. 
Ryland (Calcutta), Mr. E. Bryden (Cachar), the Honorary Secretary, Tenas- 
serim Agri-Horticultural Society (Moulmein), Dr. C. C. Caleb (Lahore), Lieutes 
nant B. Buchanan, R. A. (Bombay), Surgeon-Major Henry J. Barnes (Ahmed: 
nagar), Mr. S. L. Batchelor, 1.0.8. (Bijapur), Mr. C. P. Fox, C. EH. (Bellary), 
Mr. C. Greatheed (Tanna), Mr. BR. Giles, M. A. (Sukkur), Mr. A. Lancaster 
(Betul), Captain W. D. Gunn, A. V.D. (Dum Dum), Mr. G. C. Sturrock, R. As 
