174 E. C. Cotes — On Indian Sericulture. [Au0. 



The President announced that intimation had been received from 

 the Secretary of State that Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, 

 Empress of India, had been pleased to accept the Address presented 

 by the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the occasion of Her Majesty's 

 Jubilee. 



The Secretaey read the following notice from the American Meteor- 

 ological Journal Company dated June 1888, offering prizes for the best 

 essays on Tornadoes. 



Prize Studies of Tornadoes. 



The American Meteorological Journal, desiring to direct the atten- 

 tion of students to tornadoes, in hopes that valuable results may be 

 obtained, offers the following prizes : 



For the best original essay on tornadoes or description of a tornado, 

 $200 will be given. 



For the second best, $50. 



And among those worthy of special mention $50 will be divided. 



The essays must be sent to either of the editors, Professor Harring- 

 ton, Astronomical Observatory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, or A. Lawrence 

 Rotch^ Blue Hill, Meteorological Observatory, Readville, Mass., U. S. A., 

 before the first day of July, 1889. They must be signed by a nom de 

 plume, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope addressed with same 

 nom de plume and enclosing the real name and address of the author. 

 Three independent and capable judges will be selected to award the 

 prizes ; and the papers receiving them will be the property of the 

 Journal offering the prizes. A circular giving fuller details can be 

 obtained by application to Professor Harrington. 



Mr. Cotes exhibited a zoological collection illustrative of Indian 

 Sericulture, and made the following remarks thereon : 



Fourteen collections, illustrative of Indian silk producing Moths, 

 have been prepared in the Indian Museum for distribution to various 

 Museums and other institutions in Europe and India. The species 

 illustrated are the ones which actually spin the various kinds of silk 

 that are produced commercially in India, (that is to say, the different 

 mulberry silk worms, the Tusser, the Eri, and theMuga,) and also several 

 wild species, which are not used at present for commercial purposes but 

 which, nevertheless, all spin silk, in some eases of excellent quality. 



These collections do not by any means contain representatives of all 

 the silk producing moths of India, but they contain all the more im- 

 portant species, and are as complete as the material available allowed. 



In cases where it was possible to do so, specimens have been given 



