1874.] Library, 87 



I feel that not being a naturalist, I am unable to do adequate justice 

 to his work. Mr. Blyth came out to India in 1841. He was the first 

 Curator of the Museum of this Society, and in that year took over the office 

 which had previously been honorary. 



This office he retained till 1863 when he retired on a small pension 

 granted by the Grovernment of India for his excellent service. 



His works were — before he came to India, an English translation of 

 Cuvier's " Eegne Animale," in which the Mammals^ Birds, and Reptiles were 

 edited by him ; many of his own notes suggesting modifications in the then 

 existing systems of classification, have been subsequently fully substantiated 

 and adopted. 



After his arrival in India, most of his works appeared in the Society's 

 Journal, where these papers are so numerous, and their value so well known, 

 that there can be no necessity for me to do more than refer to them. 



Mr. Blyth was an enthusiastic zoologist, he lived for his science and 

 probably had the greatest knowledge of Indian Birds and Mammals of any 

 naturalist of his time. 



LiBEART. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 meeting held in February last. 



Presentations. 

 ^*^ Names of Donors in Capitals. 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 162^ 

 Part 11. 



General Sir Ed. Sabine — Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism, No. XII. Sir 

 B. C. Brodie — An Experimental enquiry on the Action of Electricity on Gases, — I, ou 

 the Action of Electricity on Oxygen. 



The Royal Society of London. 

 The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Parts II and III. 

 1873. 



Part II, Professor Oliver and Col. Grant — The Botany of the Speke and Grant 

 Expedition, an Enumeration of the Plants collected during the journey of the late Capt. 

 J. H. Speke and Capt. (now Lieut.-Col.) J. A. Grant from Zanzibar to Egypt. 



The Journal of the Linnean Society, (Zoology), Vol. XI, Nos. 55 and 56. 



No. 55. A. Muller — Note on a Chinese Artichoke-gall (mentioned and figm-ed in 

 Dr. Ranee's paper " on Silkworm oaks,") allied to the European Artichoke-gall of 

 ApMlothrixgemmcB, Linn. 



No. 56. JEd. Saunders — Description of Buprestidce collected in Japan, by G. Lewis, 

 Esq., Surgeon-Major F. Bay — On some new Fishes of India. 

 (Botany), Vol. XIII, Nos. 68-72. 



No. 69. W. Mitten — New species of Musci collected in Ceylon, by Dr. Thwaites. W. 

 A. Leighton — On two new species of the Genus Mycoporum, Flotow (Bamboo-lichens fi-om 

 Pegu). W. T. T. Dyer — On the determination of three imperfectly known species of 



