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abnormality in so little variable a bird ; wliile in the Proceedings was 

 published a most useful paper by Miss Evans, dealing with the feeding 

 habits and reproduction of the common grey mosquito of Calcutta. In 

 this communication it is shown that the insect may live in its adult 

 stage for as long as five weeks, and that it exhibits a marked preference 

 for the blood of the house -sparrow as food, as well as for our own. 

 Altogether the scientific section of the Society's work may be said 

 during the last year to have fully maintained its interest. 



Journal, Part III. 



This part of the Journal for 1900 contained a long paper by Lt.-Col. 

 Waddell on the Tribes of the Brahmaputra Valley, and could not be 

 issued during that year because of the difficulty and delay attending the 

 revision of the proofs by the author, who was then in China. The 

 article was at length passed through the press and the Journal for 1900 

 was published during tne early part of 1901. The tribes in that Valley 

 represent radical elements from all the three great ethnological sub- 

 regions, Indo-Chinese, Indo-Malayan and Indian ; and the author 

 describes their peculiar characteristics, dealing with each tribe in detail, 

 and gives a large quantity of anthropometric data which he collected 

 himself. 



Papers, which had been read before the Society during 1900, were 

 then brought into the Journal for 1901 and were issued at the beginning 

 of the year. They describe some castes and legends in Berar, stone im- 

 plements in the Santal Parganas (where they are known as lightning- 

 stones), and some riddles from Behar. The second Number contains an 

 article, in which Mr. Holland describes the Coorgs and Yeruvas in the 

 Madras Presidency and gives valuable information and measarements 

 collected by himself; and another paper setting out an Accumulation 

 Droll and Rhyme in Bengal. Mr. Holland's conclusion is that the 

 Coorgs, when judged according to ethnological characteristics, take a 

 very high position among the races of South India. 



Coins. 



Fifty-seven coins were presented to the Society by the Governments 

 of Bombay, Madras and N.-AV. Provinces during the year under review. 

 Of these 3 are gold, 7 copper, 41 silver and 6 lead coins. The latter 

 bear the die of the Andhra Dynasty who ruled Eastern and Southern 

 India from the beginning of first century B.C. to the end of the second 

 century A.D. Of the gold coins one belongecf to the reign of Jagadeka- 

 Malla of the later CalQkya Dynasty of Kalyana in the Marhatta country, 

 found in Bijapur District, within his kingdom. The second gold coin 



