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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



[No. 5; 



exactly where it was before Mr. Oldham made his attack upon his 

 (Mr. Blanford's) paper on the Spiti Fossils. 



Dr. Stoliczka mentioned that Mr. Schlagintweit has described from 

 Gnari-Khorsum an Ammonite, viz., Ammonites Kobelli, which is very- 

 analogous to A. bifrons, so much so, that the one might be taken for 

 the other ; that both the species or varieties, as they may be called, 

 exist in the Society's collection ; and that it would be desirable to 

 know whether the same are represented in the Oxford collections. 



Mr. Blanford remarked that, though the species might be similar, 

 the peculiarity of the supposed Gerard Fossils was in the absolute 

 identity of their mineral character with that of the Whitby fossils; 

 moreover, the abundance of the same species at Spiti and Whitby, 

 and the absence at Spiti of other fossils having the same mineral 

 character, but not specifically identical with Whitby fossils. 



Colonel Strachey made some remarks tending to throw doubt on the 

 authenticity of the disputed Gerard fossils. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From W. Cornish, Esq. a specimen of the Black-backed Groose 

 (Sarkidiornis melanonotus.) 



2. From Lieutenant B», C. Beavan; two specimens of Dendrocitta 

 rufa. 



3. From Dr, F. Stoliczka ; a specimen of Lagomys Curzonice. 



4. .From Baboo Rajendra Mullick ; two specimens of Ooura 

 Coronata, or crowned Pigeon; five specimens of Wild Ducks, a 

 Flamingo, and a black Lemur. 



5. From A. C, L, Carlyle, Esq., Officiating Curator; three speci- 

 mens of Bats : one Nycticejus canus, and two of a species of Scotophilus > 

 Calcutta, 



6. From Baboo Poorno Chunder Bysack, Assistant Curator ; several 

 specimens of young Bats. 



7. From Lieutenant R. C. Beavan; three books, viz., "England's 

 Workshops;" " The Utilization of Minute Life," and another work. 



8. From the Government of India, Foreign Department; two 

 copies of a series of Photographic likenesses of the tribes of Nepal, 

 taken by Captain Taylor. 



The Officiating Curator exhibited the skeletons of a large Crocodile 

 and a Frog, Rana Brahma, prepared for the Museum. 



