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General Secretary. — M. Edmond Douttet, Professor in the ficole Supe- 

 rieure des Lettres, Pare de Fontaine-Bleue, 

 Mustapha Superieur, Algiers. 



Treasurer, — M. David, Chief of the Governor-Generars Private Sec- 

 retariat, Palais d'Hiver, Algiers. 



Subjects. 



I. India. — Aryan Languages and Indian Languages. 



II. Semitic Languages. 



III, Mussulman Languages (Arabic, Turkish, Persian). 



IV. Egypt : African Languages : Madagascar. 

 V. Ear East. 



VI. Greece and the East. 



VII. African Archaeology and Mussulman Art. 



The titles of papers intended to be read at the Congress should be 

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 the General Secretary, or the Assistant Secretaries. 



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A number of Tibetan pictures in the possession of the Imperial 

 Library, and of Col. Longe, R.E., and other private owners in Calcutta 

 were exhibited. 



The following papers were read :— 



1. The Lizards of the Andamans, with the description of a new Gecko 

 and a note on the reproduced tail in Ptychozoon homalocephalum. — By N. 



Annandale, B.A. 



(Abstract.) 



Out of the nine Geckos recorded from the Andamans, five or pos- 

 sibly six would seem to have been carried thither by man. The remaining 



