February, 1913.] Annual Report. xvii 
Narasimha, by others with Varaha. The writer does not place 
much reliance on the theory that the temple was originally a 
Saivite one, and was afterwards converted intoa Vaisnava tem- 
ple by Ramanuj in the twelfth century a.p. Rai Bahadur B. A. 
Gupte contributes a note on ‘‘ Somavati Vrata’’ which is a 
Hindu ceremony celebrated by women on dark Mondays. 
Natural History, ete, 
Fourteen scientific papers were issued, all in the Journal, 
in the year under review, six botanical, five chemical, three 
zoological and one physical. 
Borany. 
Two further instalments of that monumental work, 
‘‘ Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula,’’ both by 
J. S. Gamble, C.I.E, F.R.S., have been issued, and form 
Parts 1 and 2 of Vol. LXXV of the old series of the Journal 
The other botanical papers are :— 
New and Revised Species of Gramineae from Bombay, and 
two more species of Gramineae from Bombay-—By 
K. Burr, Assistant Economic Botanist, Bombay. 
Corchorus capsularis var. ooci 
common jute plant— 
INLOW. 
Polarity of the Bulbils of Dioscorea bulbifera Linn.—By 
I. H. BurKILL 
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ZooLoey. 
Some Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the Freshwa 
Fauna of India.—By N. ANNANDALE, D.Sc., ot 
Freshwater Sting-Rays of the Ganges.—By B. L. Cuav- 
HURI 
Contribution to our Knowledge of Indian Earwigs.—By 
Matcoim Burr, D.So., M.A., F.E.S. 
ter 
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