.February, 1914.] Annual Report. xvii 



The Action of Nitrosyl Chloride on secondary Amines. 



Methylbenzylnitrosamine and Ethylbenzylnitrosamine 



By Rasik Lai Datta. 



Botany. 



On Variations in the Flowers of Limnanthemum indicum, 



Thwaites. By H. M. Chibber. 

 The Ash of the Plantain (Musa sapientum, Linn.). David 



Hooper. 



Geology. 



On a crystallized Slag from Kulti. By Hem Chandra Das- 

 Gupta. 



Preliminary Xote on the Origin of Meteorites. Bv L. L. 

 Fermor, D.Sc, A.R.S.M., F.G.S. 



Geography. 



Two Letters of Major James Rennell. By the Rev. W. K. 

 Firminger, B.D., F.R.G.S. 



Xotes were also read on " A double Compound of Mercuric 

 Oxide with Acetone " by Jitendra Nath Rakshit, and " A new 

 Compound of Ethylacetoaeetate with Mercuric Oxide" by 

 Saratchaudra Jana. These have been published in the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



Exhibits were made by Mr. S. W. Kemp, of a small collec- 

 tion of birds recently made in the Mishmi Hills by Captain 

 R. S. Kennedy, and'by Mr. D. Hooper, of a specimen of the 

 gum of Livistona chinensis from Singapore. 



The most important work of the year has been the issue of 

 two special series of papers dealing with the zoological collec- 

 tions made by Dr. X. Annandale in the Lake of Tiberias and 

 its neighbourhood. The series, to which many distinguished 

 naturalists have contributed, will be concluded in 1914, and 

 Dr. Annandale proposes, in one of the later issues, to discu- 

 the wider biological problems which the results have helped to 



solve. 



Anthropology and Allied Sciences. 



There was a slight increase in the number of papers deal- 

 ing directly with anthropological subjects, communicated to 

 and published by the Society during the year, and it is hoped 

 that this is the beginning of a revival in attention paid to such 

 studies. The neglect from which anthropological investigations 

 have suffered in India for some time is commented on in 



the preceding Annual Reports. 



Mr. W. Kirkpatrick has continued his valuable researches 

 into the folklore and customs of the Gehara Kanjars and lias 

 published a paper dealing with the marriage ceremony and 

 marriage customs of this Gypsy tribe. The same author bas 



