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lirach} iii'ous family Rananidm; and Mr. E. J. Jones one 'on nodular stones 

 dredged from 675 fathoms of water off Colombo.' All these last are chiefly 

 based upon materials furnished by the Marine Survey party under 

 Commander A. Carpenter, K. N., who himself gives a paper ' on the 

 mean temperature of deep sea waters in Bengal.' Mr. Elson, of the 

 Pilot service, has a paper ' on observed changes in the density of sea- 

 water coincident with and due to aerial disturbances, and consequent 

 alterations of baric pressure over adjacent sea areas.' Mr. H. F. Blan- 

 ford gives an interesting and suggestive paper ' on the Influence of Indian 

 forests on rain-fall,' and Dr. Prain brings to notice the hot-springs of 

 the Namba forest. Dr. G. King, F. R. S., has three papers on new 

 species of Ficus from New Guinea and Sumatra, and the species of 

 Loranthus indigenous to Perak, and Dr. Barclay one on the commoner 

 uredines of the neighbourhood of Simla. Babu Asutosh Mukhopa- 

 dhyaya contributes four valuable mathematical papers, on the differential 

 equation of a trajectory, Monge's differential equation to all conies, and 

 on plane analytical geometry, nor must I omit to mention Dr. Scully's 

 paper on the effects of bismuth on the ductility of silver, which has been 

 reprinted at home in the * Chemical News,' and that on neolithic and 

 palaBolithic finds in Southern India, by Mr. R. B. Foote. 



In the FroceedingSj the discussion on the term ' Ehotihlidva ' opens 

 with a letter from Professor Max Miiller, in which he practically concurs 

 in the view held by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra as to its meaning. Contribu- 

 tions to the subject were subsequently made by Babii Sarat Chandra Das, 

 from Tibetan sources, as to the derivation, and also by Mr. F, S. Growse, 

 and Dr. Hoernle. Pandit Mahesachandra Nyayaratna has some notes on 

 the authorship of the Sanskrit drama MricJichhakatikd, popularly ascribed 

 to Raja S'udraka, but by Professor Pischel to Dandin, a poet who lived in 

 the seventh or eighth century of our era. Dr. Mitra also gives a notice of 

 Mandlik's edition of Manu with the seven commentaries, and Dr. Hoernle, 

 an account of the seventh Oriental Congress held at Vienna in 1886. 

 Amongst the other minor papers of importance, mention may be 

 made of Mr. H. F. Blanford's note on the rain-fall in the Carnatic, Mr. 

 E. T. Atkinson's note on an insect destructive to rice in the Tinnevelly 

 district, and descriptions of four insects belonging to the genus Chry- 

 socoris, Hahn, which are new to science ; and Mr. de ISTiceville's 

 description of a new satyrid. In addition, we have the usual reports 

 on the coins added to the Society's cabinet, which, however, do not 

 contain much of novelty, and notes on some inscriptions which are 

 of little more than local interest, as well as remarks by the Rev. T. Tracy 

 on Pandyan coins, and a communication from Col. Biddulph on rock- 

 cut caves in Chitral. Altogether the work of the year as sliown in our 

 Journal and Proceedings is a fair result for voluntary effort in India. 



