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merit has been achieved, and it appeared to be well worthy of some 

 expenditure to provide it. The Committee propose to establish a 

 1 Schwendler ' medal to be given for special services to the gardens. 



Microscopical Society. — This young Society, which may be hailed 

 as an indication of the newly awakening desire for practical science, has 

 just published its first annual Report and seems to be doing very good 

 work. As stated elsewhere, a Committee has investigated the Mango 

 Weevil, and several papers have been read ; two of which, " on Anopolo- 

 phrya JEolosomotis, a new ciliate infusorian parasite ", and " on some new 

 forms of Euplotes," both by our member Mr. H. H. Anderson, have been 

 presented to the Society and will be published in our Journal. Mr. Wood- 

 Mason, who has taken a very active interest in this Society, of which 

 he has just been elected President, contributes a paper " on the Eyes of 

 the Stomatopoda." Several other interesting notes have been brought 

 before the meetings. 



The Natural History Society of Bombay, so far as may be judged 

 from the rapid accession of numbers, now numbering over 400, and the 

 publications issued, appears to be flourishing and to be doing good work. 

 The principal papers that have appeared in its Journal are noticed under 

 their respective heads. The newly formed Anthropological Society of 

 Bombay also appears to be doing well and now has over 330 members. 



The Journal of the Madras Literary Society maintains its high 

 standard and contains several papers of general as well as local interest. 



Anthropology and Ethnology. 

 The Ethnographic Survey of Bengal which was started, under Mr. 

 H. H. Risley's supervision, in 1885, has now been completed and the 

 extensive materials collected are being prepared for publication. The 

 first two volumes of the work, containing the measurements (taken 

 on the French anthropometric system) of nearly six thousand subjects, 

 representing about eighty castes and tribes of Bengal and Northern 

 India, are expected to appear shortly ; while two other volumes, forming 

 an ethnographic glossary of the castes, tribes, sects, occupations and 

 other subordinate groups of the people of these Provinces will, it is 

 hoped, be published within the year. Mr. Risley has been invited by 

 the Committee of the Paris Exhibition to take part in the Anthropo- 

 logical Section, and a series of life-size models of representative types 

 of the races of Bengal are now being prepared at the School of Art for 

 exhibition at Paris. This experiment is of special interest as being an 

 attempt to combine artistic effect with the accurate delineation of 

 feature required for scientific purposes. A number of measurements of 

 each subject are taken on the French system, and the model is worked up 



