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February, 1908. ] Annual Report. XV 
To Geology is perhaps to be reckoned Mr. D. Hooper's ac- 
count of the composition of Well Waters in the Hadhramaut, 
Zoology has been well represented in the pages of the Jour- 
nal. On the invertebrate fauna of India have appeared papers by 
Dr. N. Aunandale describing Freshwater sponges, Hydra and a 
the occurrence of the genus as a fossil. In a memoir Dr, 
Gruyel, of Bordeaux, has described several new barnacles from the 
collections of the Indian Museum. And there has also appeared in 
the Journal a note on a parasitic worm by Dr. O. von Linstow. 
The papers on vertebrate animals include seven on the habits of 
birds by Lieutenant-Colonel D.C. Phillott, one on the distribution 
of the monkey, pasa arctoides, by Rai Ram Brahma Sanyal, 
Bahadur, and one on the rare cat, Felis tristis, by Dr. N. 
Annandale. 
H. H. Mann’s physiological Eee on the Diet of Tea 
( a Cookies in Upper Assam is of great interest. 
In Botany, the Journal for the year pe contained eleven papers, 
all dealing with the higher plants or Phanerogams of India. Five of 
them are systematic : one adds a new genus of the order Ceniiftn= 
Avawilizcarpas—to the flora of the country ; othe contain descrip- 
ns of varieties of Gentiana coronata, Swertia purpurascens, and 
Towent anethifolia. Messrs. R. 8. Finlow and C. J. a ey 
discuss the Hardness of the Seeds of Wild Fibre plants; Mr. 1. 
Burkill details observations on the Pollination of Cotton ee 
Captain A. T. Gage describes an abnormal pineapple; Messrs 
Burkill and G. C. Bose describe an abnormal mango br: anch ; and 
Mr. D. Hooper reports on the oils contained in the seeds of species 
of Garcinia. And concurrent with the volume containing these 
publication of Sir Geo: eorge King’s and Mr. J. S, Gamble’s Flora of 
= Malay pguineule. Three Darts « of ies 74 containing 730 pages 
certain smal] Indian antes animals; and Dr. Butler’s of a case of 
double parasitism in mistletoes from as disteiot of Almora 
Medical Section. 
ames men have soinel th e Society as ondiclsy pre ri during 
this period, so that at the: per of 1907 there are 61 medical 
