e- Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Mar., 1911. 
there were bits of the skin of all the following animals—tiger, 
leopard, donkey, black bear (Ursus torquatus), rhinoceros, 
musk deer, the wild cat (Felis chaus), the himalayan cat- 
bear (Aelurus fulgens) which he called Optunga, and the 
hybrid of the Yak with a cow. Most of the skins he obtains 
from hunters. There were dried skulls or parts of skulls of 
musk deer, the red dog (Cyon dukhunensis) and of a musk 
rat, a Manis, and of what he called Karang-karung, a rodent 
perhaps Lagomys : teeth of tiger, Felis chaus, pig, bear (prob-— 
ably Ursus torquatus), sloth-bear and young rhinoceros; 
dried paws of a leopard, bear, and sloth-bear ; claws of a tiger; | 
bristles of a wild pig ; half of an elephant’s Tib, flesh of Cyon | 
dukhunensis; and the dried tongue of a tiger > 
He also had a oer Jame of lard made from bear’s fat-of a 
dark colour throughout, and some hard Yaks’ cheese. The 
Yaks’ cheese was for use in preventing difficult breathing, such 
as is experienced on the high passes that the Yak frequents. 
here was in his collection the dried leg of some bird of 
prey. ea 
He had a tortoise rib, a tortoise foot, bits of the dried 
body of the lizard Varanus bengalensis and the gill-cover of Lee 
mahsir fish (Barbus tor 
e had the shells of Cypraea tigris to be 
ace to cure goitre. It is evident that the Reh of the 
shell had suggested its use in this disease. | 
He had a largish bundle of pieces of the bark of Betula 
eerie for use as paper in writing charms, and the follow 
ing ro 
percieh a rhizome not yet identified. 
adha, a stem, apparently of . Menisperm. 
Nim, bark of Melia Azadirac 
Shudakpha, a rhizome, not yet t identified. 
Bhutkes, root of Selinum Candollii 
Punga rai, a fern stem. 
Pokli rai, a fern stem. 
_ Padam chal, root of a Rheum of 
jay oso the shell = a fruit looking not unlike that 
rapa moluccens ine | 
o had pieces of copper pyrites, of a soft serpembe 
toalled Mirbishi aor used fee oalanake 3 in cows, and of caliu 
oo (Hum patal), a drug for fever. snd 
Annandale and Fermor and Messrs. Tipper 90 Pes 
Hooper, have kindly helped in the determination of the @ Bae 
ser: 
Mr. 8. W. Kemp exhibited new and _ interesting tan 
ocoamed. Crustacea from the collection in the 
useum 
