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several Cossyah swords and arrows captured during the late distur- 

 bances in those hills. 



8. From Colonel C. S. Guthrie, specimens of a peculiar kind of 

 Ivory called " Shermie," used in the Upper Provinces of India, in the 

 manufacture of dagger handles, &c., &c., and said by those that deal in 

 it, to be brought from Eussia. 



9. From A. C. L. Carlyle, Esq., Officiating Curator, specimens 

 of Plumbago and Manganese Ore, obtained by him from Pedda Kada 

 Kondah in the Zemindary of the Rajah of Vizianagaram, Northern 

 Circars. 



The Curator exhibited the following Zoological specimens. — A 

 Varanus and two small bittern-like herons viz., a variety of Ardeola 

 Malaccensis and a specimen of Ardeola cinnamonea shot by him for 

 the Society; a large Monitor shot near the Salt Lake Canal; speci- 

 mens of certain snakes obtained by him, viz., Tropidonotus stolatus, 

 Tropidonotus scliistosus, and Tropidonotus umhratus ; a specimen of 

 a species of fossil Clypeaster found by him in the desert near the 

 Great Pyramid ; and specimens of some shells collected by him in the 

 Sunderbuns, 



The Curator reported that he had procured from Mutlah an enor- 

 mous Crocodile, sixteen and half feet in length, for the Society, through 

 the kindness of J. Sturmer, Esq., and H. B. Farr, Esq., of the Mutlah 

 Railway Company, to whom the thanks of the Society are due. The 

 Crocodile is being made into a skeleton specimen for the Museum. 



Mr. Blanford proposed that the special thanks of the Society be 

 given to the above named gentlemen ; which proposition was put to 

 the vote of the meeting and carried unanimously. 



A letter from D. M. Gardener, Esq., C. S., announcing his with- 

 drawal from the Society, was recorded. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed at the last meeting were 

 balloted for and elected Ordinary members : — 



Dr. C. R. Francis, C. B. Garrett, Esq., C. S. ? W. Swinhoe, Esq., and 

 Rev. J. Ebenezer Marks, 



The following gentlemen were named for ballot as Ordinary 

 Members at the next meeting : — - 



J. Beames, Esq., C. S., Collector and Magistrate of Purneah, pro- 

 posed by Lieutenant-Colonel F. P. Layard, seconded by N". S. Alexan- 

 der, Esq. 



