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ings and their ae The size of the two largest may be 
gathered from photographs no. 6, in which a ee © Se ee is 
seen on the head of ae ei Photog raph no. 8 s a smaller 
statue, which stands in a niche on the cliffs on the nace bank of 
the Chapdara, a valley about two miles below Bamidn ia a 
1 the figures are carved out of tertiary conglo 
posed of a fairly hard matrix of sandy clay full of eae) ae 
was unable to obtain photographs of the frescoes above the 
heads of the statues. These are, as a rule, very dilapidated, 
but a few are still well- preserved and the colours bright and 
fresh. ey are very similar to the frescoes found in Buddhist 
temples in Tibet at the present day. (H. H. Haypen.) 
The as papers were read :— 
1. Tibetan Charms obtained by Lieut.-Col. 8. H. Godfrey in 
_ Ladakh, one for chasing away evil spirits and the Foe for compel- 
ling fortune. —By Dr, Saris Cuanpra VipyaBaus 
This paper a been published in the pate for May 1908. 
2. A polyglot list of Birds in Manchu, China and Turki.—By 
Dr. E. D. Ross 
This paper ‘will be published in the Memoirs. 
3. The Date of the Salimi coins.—By H. Beverince, 
This paper has been published in the Journal for May 1908. 
4. Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula, No. 21.— By 
Sir Georce Kine and J. 8. Gamete, 
This paper will be published in a subsequent number of the 
Journal, 
5. Note on the hk dh Faicon (Falco peregrinus).—By 
Ligor.-Con. D. C, Put 
his paper has eas ‘published ; in the Journal for May 1908. 
6. The Use of the Abacus in Ancient India.—By G. R. Kaye. 
7. Plea for an Aquariwm in Bengal.—By Rat Bawapur Ram 
BrauMA Sanyat. 
The question of founding an aquarium in Caleutta has 
Hisigeioal. during the last eo years been 
ee discussed from time time in the 
press, in zoological a ssid’ in the Connell Chamber of Govern- 
ment. In te pr He al was made by the ommatice 
Naples, and from r Euro experts. But t the matter pro- 
ed no further rine that of oxhibitive for some time gold and 
silver fish in —_ aquaria. 
In a temporary aquarium for the exhibition of fresh- 
water fishes, mollusks and crustaceans was built by Mr. Haden- 
