Ixxxviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. { June, 
the 24th Reet. he Foot, 1851; he retired in 1877. He came to 
{India in eee served in the Second Burmese War and in the 
njab. was ee Topographical Reainiant in the Trigo- 
rang age hairy of India, and joined the Kashmir Survey Party 
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in pat fae the seco higheet mountain in the Him ce since 
named after him. He surveyed the lofty country of Rupshu and 
Zaskar in Ladakh, 1862; in July and August of that year he 
made 13 different ascents of a mean height of 17,900 ft., the 
highest peak, Mata, being 20,607 ft.; he took bi the Survey of the 
Chanchingmo and carried the topography o the eastern end of 
the Shag tris lake, close to Rudok in Chinceo Territory, where 
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rag to otis and mapped the whole country between Darjee- 
ing and Punakha. He was with the expedition panies the Dafla 
rae at te: “bai of the Eastern Himalayas, when a large area 
of new country was mapped and many distant peaks fixed. He 
Section E (Geo 
' ciation in 1883, and President of the Malacological Society, 1897- 
1899. He has published largely on ge Land and Freshwater 
Mollusca of India, and very many papers in the Journals of various 
Scientific Societies on geology and gigeaal Seven: ethnology, 
and natural history. He has been an enthusiastic member of this 
Society since 1861, has contributed many articles to its Journal 
and is still actively engaged in the study of Indian Malacology, 
having published papers during the year, and having other impor- 
tant monographs in hand. (NeELson rehome ALE. ) 

Melchior Treub took his Doctor’s degree at Leyden in the 
year 1873 with an imaugural dissertation upon the nature of 
—? for the purpose of which he had successfully separated 
e half dozen into the fungus and the alga whereof they are 
copaihate 
In 1876 he = the staff of the Botanic Gardens at 
embryology of orchids: his researches on Cyc consider- 
able re and ri researches on the prothallus of ia aie 
had great importance. He combined with this morphological an 
anatomical work a certains amount of work on the biology of 
lants. 
in 1880 he became Director in succession to Dr. Scheffer : and 
