124 W. L. Sclater — Bemarks on Paradoxurus. [April, 



The President announced that the Council had sanctioned : (1) as a 

 special case, the exemption of Babu Gaurdas Bysack, who has com- ' 

 pounded for his subscription as a non-Resident Member, from payment 

 of further subscription as a Resident Member, in consideration of his 

 having been an old officer of the Society and a member of very long 

 standing ; (2) the purchase of a collection of old coins for Bs. 250 

 offered by Mr. Delmerick, some of them being very rare. 



The President also announced that the Council, on the application 

 of the Finance Committee, had authorized the sale of Government 

 Promissory Notes of the nominal value of Bs. 2,000, 



The President said that Members of the Society would be glad 

 to hear that on the invitation of Commander Carpenter, B. N"., com- 

 manding the Indian Marine Survey vessel " Investigator," the Trustees 

 of the Indian Museum had given leave to Mr. Wood-Mason, the 

 Superintendent of the Museum, and Natural History Secretary of the 

 Society, to go on a cruise as Naturalist to do some deep sea dredging 

 in the Indian Ocean. It was an opportunity which had been looked 

 forward to by Mr. Wood-Mason, and there was no doubt he would take 

 the fullest advantage of it to the benefit of the Museum and of the 

 Society. 



The General Secretary exhibited an old portrait in oil colours 

 found in the Public Library at Allahabad sent by the Hon. Mr. 

 Quinton, for the purpose of identification, if possible, and stated that it 

 appeared from inscriptions in English and Persian faintly traceable on 

 the Canvas at the top that the portrait was intended for a Mr. G. T. 

 Dankin or Honkin, but that nothing could be ascertained from old 

 directories or lists of civilians about any gentleman of that name. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater exhibited some specimens of the Mammalia 

 of the genus Faradoxurus, and made the following remarks thereon : 



The first specimen I have to exhibit was recently presented to the 

 Indian Museum by Mr. James Boss of Ootacamund and was shot near 

 that place ; at first it seemed to be nothing but the common Palm cat 

 of India {Faradoxurus hermapJiroditus or musanga) but on examining 

 the skull it was at once manifest that it was a species recently de- 

 scribed by Mr. Blanford (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 613) and named by him 

 Faradoxurus jerdoni. 



The skull of Faradoxurus jerdoni can be at once distinguished 

 from that of all other species of Faradoxurus by the length of the 

 anterior palatal foramina, which extend back to the level of a line 

 drawn across the palate behind the anterior pair of premolars. 



