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February, 1910.] Annual Be port. XIV 



Manchu and Chinese." This is an attempt by Dr. Rossto utilise 

 the resources of the great Dictionary in five languages prepared 

 by the order of the Chinese Emperor K'ien Lung, of which only 

 one copy is known to exist to-day, namely, the Manuscript in t he 

 British Museum. Three hundred and sixty bird names occur 

 in this work, and of these upwards of 200 have bee 

 mately identified. 



An extra number of the Journal contains a Grain mar and 

 Dictionary of the Kanawari, a dialect of the Punjab. A com- 

 plete structure of the dialect is clearly set forth in the gram- 

 mar in the course of only 27 pages. The Dictionary, which 

 consists of 138 pages, embodies the principal words in Roman 

 character explained in English together with an occasional 

 discussion of their etymology. The works have been compiled 

 by Pandit Tikaram Joshi, and edited by Mr. H. A. o>e, I.< > 



Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. 



The total number of contributions to the Society's publica- 

 tions under the heading Mathematics and the Xatural Sciences 

 is seventeen : of them one is in pure mathematics, one is in 

 mineralogy, two are in chemistry, one in geology, four in zoo- 

 logy, and eight in botany. 



The Society published during 1909 Professor Syamdas 

 Mukhopadhyaya's second paper on A General Theory of Oscula- 

 ting Conies. 



On July 7th, 1909, Professor Sommerfeldt exhibited befon 

 it at a general meeting a modification of Websky's Ganiometei 

 which he had devised. The modification enables crystals to be 

 measured accurately as by a theodolite-geniometer. 



Mr. Hooper's paper on Tamarisk manna names the origin 

 of the exudation : and the author shows that the chief sugar in 

 it is not mannite, but a saccharose. Babu Bidhu Bhusan Dutta 

 in a paper on The Constituents of the roots of Irisrr maconcm^ 

 num, Schott, and A. speciosum, Mart., points out that these 

 two famine foods contain a considerable amount of nutriment, 

 chiefly starch. Babu Hem Chandra Das-Gupta in a >hort 

 paper called attention to a fossil shell of the genus Ooniomya 

 from the Cretaceous rocks of Southern India, differ 

 from any hitherto described. Dr. X. Annandale 

 before the Society on Nov. 4, 1908, specimen- of thePoly/oon- 

 Pectinatella burmanica, from Puri, Bengal : and a note <>n this 

 exhibit was published in the Society's Proceedings during 1909. 



had 



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Mosquito-Iarvce eating propensity of fish of 



pccies 



genus Haplochilu 



ther observations. , 



of small fishes are voracious feeders on the larvae. Dr. H.I ravi 

 Jenkins at a special meeting on Fob. 17th. I0o9, brought tl 



