February, 1916.] Annual Report. xv 



Sir George Dunbar's later explorations in the Upper Dihong 



Five papers dealing with anthropological matters have ap- 

 peared m the Journal of the Society. Pandit Hirananda Sas- 

 tri s communication regarding prehistoric copper antiquities is 

 ot great interest and brings up to date our knowledge of this 

 subject. Considerable interest is being displayed in prehisto- 

 ric India at present, and the list of finds of stone and metal 

 artifacts is a continually growing one. Papers of this nature 

 serve a most useful purpose and are of great help to students 

 of the subject. 



Two other papers, though apparently of more local inter- 

 est, are not without their bearing on the wider aspects of primi- 

 tive religion and folklore. These are Bimala Charan Bata- 

 byal s account of Dakshindar, a godling of the Sunderbuns and 

 Sarat Chandra Mitra's note on North Indian folk medicine for 

 hydrophobia and scorpion sting. 



A paper by Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri deals with the weighing 

 beam and various rural weights and measures in use in Orissa, 

 while Mr. H. V Nanjundlayya publishes a paper read at the 

 T£?u Indian . Science Congress in Madras on " Some Aspects 

 ot ethnographic Investigation. ' ' 



Efforts have been made during the year to improve the 

 Anthropological Section of the Society's library bv the pur- 

 chase of new books and serials, but there is still a great deal to 

 be done in this direction before a reference library worthy of 

 the importance of the subject has been brought together 



Zoology. 



Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 



Of the highly interesting report on the Biology of the Lake 

 of Tiberias three papers, constituting the Fourth Series, had 

 been read during the year 1914, but were published during the 

 year under review. They are a paper on Hydrophilidae bv Dr 



Walter 



ipod 



m. .lattersau, ana a paper on unironomidae by J. J. 

 Kiefer. The undoubtedly new species belong all of them to the 

 Chironomidae. They are Pelopia cygnus, Trichotanypus tiberi- 

 adis, Polypedilum genesareth, Polypedilum tiberiadis, Tendipes 

 bethsaidae, and Tendipes galilaeus. Dr. Annandale concluded 



wi 



bution of the fauna which they described. He showed that the 

 aquatic fauna of the Jordan river-system, and particularly 

 that of the Lake of Tiberias, consisted mainly of species belong- 

 ing to Palaearctic genera closely allied to forms from Eastern 

 Europe and the Euphrates Valley. But among the fishes Ethio- 

 pian forms were also found, a fact of special interest in connec- 

 tion with the ancient history of the system. There are a 



