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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 



[No. 5, 



W. Anderson, Esq. 

 H. Dunlop, Esq. 

 J. C. Sarkies, Esq. 

 D. R. Onslow, Esq. 

 J. H, A. Branson, Esq. 



Whitley Stokes, Esq. 

 R. J. Richardson, Esq. 

 E. S. Robertson, Esq. 

 E. T. Atkinson, Esq. 



The following gentlemen were named for ballot as Ordinary Members 

 at the ensuing Meeting. 



Lieutenant J. H. Urquhart, R. E., proposed by Captain Godwin 

 Austen, seconded by H. F. Blanford, Esq. 



Dr. J. Anderson, proposed by Dr. Partridge, seconded by W. L. 

 Heeley, Esq. 



The receipt of the following Communications was announced : — 



1. From Baboo Gopee Nauth Sen; an abstract of the Hourly 

 Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in 

 September last. 



2: From Dr. Stoliczka; a note on Lagomys Curzonice Hodgson. 



The Secretary read Dr. Stoliczka's paper, of which the following is 

 an abstract : — During a late visit to Eastern Ladak, Dr. Stoliczka had 

 succeeded in procuring several specimens of this animal, one of which 

 had been prepared for the Society's Museum, and was exhibited on 

 the table of the meeting room. Although occurring plentifully in 

 Ladak, this was the first specimen that had reached the Society's 

 Museum. After a detailed description of specimens of different age, 

 &c, and noting the differences which characterized young and adult 

 specimens, Dr. Stoliczka gives an account of the habitat of the species. 

 It does not live usually at a less elevation than 15,500 ft. above the 

 sea. Round the Chomoriri lake it is associated with Phaiomys lucurus 

 and Arctomys bobac. The greatest elevation at which Dr. Stoliczka 

 met with it was 18,672 ft., at the top of the Ladak pass, on the 

 confines of vegetation. Between 15,500 ft. and at the latter 

 elevation, it is very abundant throughout Ladak, and it appears to 

 range far to the Eastward, as Mr. Hodgson obtained specimens from 

 Chumbi, N. W. of Sikhim. Dr. Stoliczka had not observed it 

 south of the Bara Lacha range. In Spiti L. Curzonice is represented 

 by another species, L. Boylei, which ranges between 12,500 and 

 16,000 ft. 



