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he ra exhibited was cast ashore at Puri, on the Orissa 
coast, and forms the type of a new species. No species of the 
genus appears és have been recorded hitherto from Indian seas. 
Photographs of allied species (one of them new to science) preserved 
in the Madras Museum were also exhibited. 
. N. Annandale exhibited some Freshwater Sponges recent- 
ly collected by him in the ee ae Presidency and Burma. 
The two ay exhibited were made in November, 1907, 
in the Western Ghats, and in March, 1908, at’ Rangoon and the 
Amherst district of. ew The Bombay collection includes 
several species originally described by Carter from that patina A 
as well as others new to science, not hitherto known from In 
or only recorded from Bengal. The most notable are Spongilla 
description; Spongilla lacustris, agreeing in every respect with 
uropean examples; Ephydatia indica, only known from Lower 
Bengal; and two new species, one of which is allied to Weber’s 
Spongilla sumatrana and the other to an African species, Weltner’s 
Spongilla lor — The Burmese collection consists, with one ex- 
ception, of species common in Calcutta, such as Spongilla cartert, 
S. proliferens, Ty esate ie latouchiana and T, phillotiana. The 
exception is a new species of Tubella (a — not hitherto recorded 
from India) allied to T. vesparium Martens, which is only known 
from Borneo and is the only representative of the genus hitherto 
recorded from the Oriental Region 
The ole papers were si — 
oods for Har 0 Si Ligvt.-Cotonet D. C. 
PuiLiort, eckeany, Board of pee ae 
2. Note on the Drum in Falconry. one Lyevt.-Cotonet D, C. 
PHILLOTT, tokan, Board of Examiner 
3. The Jew’s Harp in Assam.—By A. W. Youna. 
4. Notes on the Geography of Old Bengal.—By Monmonan 
CHAKRAVARTI. 
This paper will be published in a subsequent number of 
the Journal. 
some Richaroust Relations of Qurves and Surfaces—By 
MAHENDRANATH Dz, 
6. The Age of Kalidas—By Pror. Sarapa Ransan Ray, M.A. 
Communicated by the President. 
oS a te will be published in a subsequent number of 
the lous 
An ayer of the Construction of (1) the Taj, (2) the Moti 
Masi (3) the Agra Fort, and (4) Fatehpur Sikri.—By HariyatH 
De, 
