82 Monthly General Meeting for June, 1900. [Jujnk, 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was lield on Wednes- 

 day, the 6th June, 1900, at 9*15 p.m. 



Major A. Alcock, M.B., CM Z S., F.G.S., I.MS., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Mr. J. Bathgate, Dr. T. Bloch, Rai Chuiii Lai Bose Bahadur, 

 Mr. F. Finn, Mr T. H. Holland, Mr. D. Hooper, Mr. H. E. Kempthorne, 

 Captain A. F. McArdle, I. M.S., Mr. C. Michie, Captain C. J. R. Milne, 

 I.M.S., Mr. L. de Niceville, Mr. F. E. Pargiter, Captain L. Rogers, 

 I.M.S., Mr. E. S. Wood, Mr. E. Thornton, Captain H. J. Walton, 

 I.M.S. 



Visitors:— C?iY>Um T. B. Kelly, I.M.S. , Mr. W. D. Maitland, Babu 

 Hiialal Sinha, Mr. E. Vredenburg. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Twenty-five presentations were announced. 



The Chairman announced : — 



(1) That Mr. W. A. Lee had resigned his seat on the Council of 

 the Society. 



(2) That the Council had elected Mr. F. E. Pargiter, I.C.S., as 

 Anthropological Secretary in the place of Lt.-Col, L. A. Waddell, 

 I.M.S., resigned. 



Major Alcock exhibited a specimen of the giant Marine Lsopod 

 Bathynomiis giganteus A. M.-Edw., recently dredged by the " Livesti- 

 gator " off Ceylon in 594-225 fathoms, and remarked upon its curious 

 and suggestive geographical distribution, the only other locality in 

 which it is known to exist being the Gulf of Mexico. 



The specimen exhibited is an adult male and measures nearly a foot 

 in length, along the dorsal curve. 



Major Alcock also exhibited a coloured life-size model of a Colu- 

 brine snake {Qaluher oxycephalus) made by native artists ftom a spirit 

 specimen, and remarked upon this new application of native skill to- 

 wards the illustration of the Zoology of the country. 



The specimen is of life-like exactness, and is one of a large series 

 now being prepared in the Indian Museum for exhibition in the Reptile 

 Gallery. 



