138 Shins of Wild Swans. [June, 



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The Secretaet announced that a letter had been received from the 

 Schwann Memorial Committee, Liege, Belgium, asking for the co-opera- 

 tion of the Asiatic Society at an anniversary festival to be held in honour 

 of Schwann, the discoverer of the analogy of the structure of animals and 

 plants. 



The Secretary announced that a letter had been received from the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Lyons, giving an account of a large Geographical Globe, 

 constructed in 1701, by Henri Marchand, and asking the assistance of the 

 Asiatic Society in forwarding geographical information, to enable the 

 Society to publish an account of the early geographical researches during 

 the 10th century. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited two skins of adult wild swans, shot by 

 Mr. H. E. Watson at Bahawalpur, near Sehwan, in Sind, on the 12th 

 February last, and clearly belonging to the mute swan, Gygnus olor, the 

 same as the tame swan of England. Mr. Blanford pointed out that this was 

 the first time that the occurrence of this bird had been recorded so far to 

 the southward or that the adult had been shot in India. Mr. Watson 

 saw wild swans on two occasions during the past cold season, once on the 

 Manchhar lake near Sehwan, in January, and the second time at Bahawal- 

 pur, in the Sehwan district, on February 12th, on this latter occasion he 

 succeeded in shooting three. 



The only other cases in which swans had been previously procured in 

 India were noticed by Mr. Brooks in the Proceedings of the Society for 

 April, 1872, p. 63. So far as Mr. Blanford was aware, no subsequent notice 

 of the occurrence of swans in India had appeared. The only previously 

 recorded instance in which C. olor had been obtained was in the extreme 



