AUGUST, 1912. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the sti was held 
on Wednesday, the 7th August, 1912, at 9-15 p.m. 
MaAaHAM great eas HARAPRASAD SHASTRI, C.I.E., Vice- 
President, in the chai 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Mr. J. Coggin Brown, Mr. F. H. 
Gravely, Mr. D. Hooper, Dr. W. C. Hossack, Rev. H. Hosten, 
S.J., Mr. S. W. Kemp, Mr. R. D. Mehta C.LE., Rai Bahadur 
Lalit Mohan Singha Ray, Mr. G. Stadler, Dr. Satis Chandra 
Vidyabhusana, Rev. J. Watt. 
Visitor :—Dr. S. B. Mehta. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-one presentations were announced. 
The General ‘outa reported that Mr. W. 8. Milne, I.C.S., 
Major H. W. Gratten, R.A.M.C., and Major V. E. H. Lindesay, 
I.M.S., had Fin i a wish to ithaca from the Society. 
The “then: three gentlemen were balloted for as Ordi- 
nary Member 
Babu Mer ‘Behari Ghosh, Vakil, ee Court, proposed by 
Hon. Mr. Justice J. G. Woodroffe, seconded by Col. A. 
Harris, C.S.I.; Mr. P. 8S. Ramaiu Chetty, Landed Proprietor, 5, 
Strotten Moollia Moodelly Street, Madras, proposed by Babu 
Rakhal Das oer ioe seconded by a 
Haraprasad Shastri; and Syed Abdulla-ul-Musawy, B.A., 
Zemindar, ohne, District Burdwan, proposed by ‘Madlavi M. 
Hidayat Hosain, seconded by Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana. 
Mr. D. Hooper exhibited a specimen of the fat of a tiger 
(Felis tigris) received from Mourbhanj. 
Tiger’s fat has a considerable local reputation as a healing 
remedy for ulcers and skin affections. The sample is some- 
The c 
what decomposed and has an acid value o mica] 
and physical constants are :—Specific gravity a a C., 0°8912 ; 
min ah point 35°; saponification vaiue ine value 
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acids. The fat is painted to that of the wild cat ard catus) and 
domestic cat (F. domestica) examined by Amthor and Zink 
(Chem. Zeitung 1906-54). 
