xX Annual Report. |February, 1915. 
Himalayas, with its anthroprometrical appendix by J. Coggin 
Brown and S. W. Kemp, is now ready for publication. It 
should prove the most important anthropological memoir 
published by the Society for a considerable number of years. 
With this exception, and with that of the papers on pre- 
historic archaeology, it cannot be claimed that any great pro- 
gress has been made in anthropological work in the year 1914. 
Indeed, it is difficult to see how realprogress can be made, 
in view of the fact that there are at present no scientific men 
in India who can devote their time to the supremely difficult 
branches of biology comprised under the term anthropology, 
the few who have had a special training being more than fully 
Superintendent. At present, the one direction in which our 
activities can be profitably extended is that of improving our 
collection of books and serial publications relating to the anthro- 
pological sciences. 
Zoology, Botany and Geology. 
ZOOLOGY. 
An interesting account, by N. Annandale and F. H. 
Gravely, of the Fauna of the Limestone Caves of Burma and the 
Malay Peninsula forms part of a general paper, by J. Coggin 
Brown and the two above mentioned authors, on the limestone 
caves of the Shan States, Tenasserim, Siam, and the Federated 
Malay States. More than 70 species have been noticed, but 
Euro a orth American cav ence probably 
due to the difference in the physiographical features of the 
caves in the two regions. rule, co n is more easily 
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near the base of the ventral side of the femur, a loud creaking 
sound is produced by legs severed from the body, an operation 
which probably aids the injured individual in escaping from its 
enemy. 
_ Three zoological papers published during the year under 
review deal with species represented in the extensive collection 
y Dr. Annandale in Galilee. H.B. Preston enumerates 
43 species of Mollusca from the Lake of Tiberias, and describes 
10 new species. A prominent feature of the molluscan fauna 
of the lake is the total absence or paucity of the thinner-shelled 
