230 Natural History Communications received, [Nov. 



6. Descriptions of new species of Helic'idce of tlie genera Helix and Acliatina 

 from the Khasi Hills and Mani])ur. — By Major H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen, F. G. E. S. 



This paper will be published in Journal Part II, No. 2, 1875. 



The meeting then was adjourned. 



LiBEAET. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the meet- 

 ing held in August last. 



JPresentations. 



*^* Names of Donors in Capitals. 



The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Vol. YII, Part I. 



Asiatic Society of Great Britain. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1873, 

 Vol. 163, Parts I, and IL 



Official List of the Royal Society of London, ending 30th Nov. 1873. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Vol. XXII, Nos. 152 and 

 153. 



J. N. Hennessey: Note on the Periodicity of Rainfall. — W. Rolerts M. D. : 

 Studies on Biogenesis. — Prof. Oshorne Reynolds : On the Refraction of Sound by the 

 Atmosphere. — N. Moseley : On the Structure and Development of Peripatus cajpen- 

 sis. — J. Tyndall : Further Experiments on the Transmission of Sound. 



RoTAL Society of London, 



Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of Birmingham, 

 for October 1873, and January and April 1874. 



C. C. WaUcer : Description of a Wrought Iron Construction of Observatory for 

 maintaining equality of internal and external temperature. — A. JB. Brown : On Hy- 

 draulic Machinery for steering, reversing and discharging cargo &c., in steamships. — 

 JJ. M. Morriso7i : On the Transmission of Water Power by Turbines and Wire Ropes. 



Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol. XXVII, Pt. I. 



J. A. JSwing and J. G. Macgregor : On the Electrical Conductivity of certain Sa- 

 line Solutions, with a Note on the Density. — J, Deivan and I. G. M' Kendricic, 31. D : 

 On the Physiological Action of Light. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Session 1872-73. 

 2), H. Marshall : Note on the rate of decrease of Electric Conductivity with in- 

 crease of temperature. 



The Royal Society of Edinbitegh. 



