XVill Annual Report. [February, 1909. 
special standard temperatures for tropical countries, and a 
Committee has been appointed to collect evidence and to discuss 
the question as regards India. 
Mr. Hooper has given in the February Journal two notes, 
one on the nature of the Fat of the Himalayan Bear, and the 
other on that of the Oil of Lawsonia alba—the Henna bush. 
Professor Panchanan Neogi has shown in the June J ournal 
under what conditions Fehling’s Solution may be reduced 
by means of formaldehyde and a mirror-like film of copper 
deposited on the inside of a glass vessel : while Professor P. C. 
Ray in the August Journal has published a note On the retar- 
ganous nitrate. A second part of Professor Watson's 
On the Fastness of Indigenous Dyes has appeared as a memoir. 
Professor Watson shows that several Indian dyes, which on 
cotton are of second-rate value, behave in a much better way 
on silk. 
Captain Hirst’s paper in the September Journal On the Kosi 
river and some lessons to be learnt from it is of great present inter- 
est. Captain Hirst points out that in very recent times some of 
the feeders of the Kosi were independent rivers, so that the Kosi 
then could not have had its present volume However, in the 
cal subsidences or elevations for which we know tio rules at 
present. He indicates what surveying is necessary for a fuller 
knowledge of this river and its ways. Babu Hem Chandra Das 
Gupta in the June number published Geological notes on Hill 
Tipperah. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Phillott contributed to the May Journal 
a note On the Peregrine Falcon, giving chiefly those points and 
habits of the bird which appeal to the hawker. This paper falls 
into a series with several others from his pen. 
In the June Journal will be found A diagnosis of a living 
species of the genus Diplonema by Dr. Annandale. Diplonema 
is a genus of flies otherwise fossil. 
_ In the Proceedings for June may be found the late Rai 
Bahadur Ram Brahma Sanyal’s plea for the establishment of 
an Aquarium on the coast of Bengal—a plea which the Society 
has supported. And also in the proceedings are given accounts 
of interesting Zoological exhibits made by Dr. Annandale, Mr. 
Bentham, Capt. Stewart, Capt. Lloyd and Mr. Chaudhuri. 
: Manica during the year has published as parts 2 and 
mi volume xxiv of the Journal (old series) a continuation 
of the Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula by Sir 
orge King and Mr. Gamble. The undertaking to publish this 
