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MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS. 

 From Mr. H. Bicknell, Lieut. S. H. Close, Mr. S. Rebsch, Mr. J. L. Orr, and 

 Mr. L. Stansfield. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



The Irish Naturalist, for January and February, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair, 

 C.S. ; The Zoological Record, Vol. XXX, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair, C.S. ; The 

 Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XI, No. 9, in exchange ; Proceedings of the Man- 

 chester Lit. and Phil. Soc, Vol. IX, No. 1, in exchange ; On the Diseases of 

 Cattle in India (Vet.-Capt. S. Mills), from the author ; The Canadian Entomo- 

 logist, Vol. XXVII, in exchange ; Notes and Jottings from Animal Life 

 (Frank Buckland), from Mr. H. W. Buckland ; Log Book of a Fisherman 

 (Frank Buckland), from Mr. H, W. Buckland ; Natural History of British 

 Fishes, from Mr. H. W. Buckland ; Birds of India ( Jerdon), from Mr. H. W. 

 Buckland ; Entomological Soc. of Ontario (Report), in exchange ; Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society of France, 1894, in exchange ; Fauna of British India 

 (Moths), Vol. Ill, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair, C.S.; Photographs of a Tiger, from 

 Private D. Pearce ; Handbook of S. Australia, from Government. 



The following papers were then read and a vote of thanks was passed to the 

 authors : — (1) The Cheetal or Spotted Deer, by J. D. Inverarity ; (2) Collect- 

 ing Ways and Collecting Days, No. II., by Colonel C. T. Bingham ; (3) Indian 

 Arachnida : The Species of Guleodidce inhabiting India and Ceylon, by R. I. 

 Pocock ; (4) A Key to the Asiatic genera of the Hesperiidce, by Captain E. Y. 

 Watson, F.E.S., F.Z.S. ; Miscellaneous Notes— (a) The Identification of Birds 

 by E. W. Oates ; (Z>) The Occurrence of Gerardia prevostiana in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bombay, by H. M. Phipson, C.M.Z.S. ; (c) Spurs of the Red Spur- 

 fowl, by General C. F. Sharpe ; {d} On the size of Mango Trees, by R. M. 

 Dixon ; (e) The Southern Indian Harrier Eagle, by William Mahon Daly ; (/) 

 Periodical Flowering of Strobilantlies hunthianus, by William Mahon Daly. 

 (</) The Birds of the Bombay Presidency, by J. Davidson, I.C.S. 



