1202 Asiatic Society. [No. 132. 



Two papers of " Notes, principally Geological, from Bellary to Bijaporein Southern 

 India," by Capt. Newbold, of the Madras Army, were also presented, and referred 

 to the Editor of the Journal for publication. 



A letter from Capt. Bogle, Commissioner at Arracan, accompanying a copy of a 

 " Report from Lieut. Trail, of the Quarter-master General's Department, under 

 date 12th April 1826, on the Route from Pakung Yeh in Ava to Aeng in Arracan, 

 as pursued by a Detachment of British Troops under the Command of Capt. Ross, 

 M. A." was read. The Report was referred to the Editor of the Journal for publi- 

 cation. 



For all the foregoing Communications, the thanks of the Society were ordered to 

 be returned. 



Read the following report from the Curator: — 



Sir, — The interval since our last Meeting has not been signalized by much in 

 the way of discovery of new species of animals, nor have many species been added 

 to the Museum which it did not previously contain ; but much has been done to- 

 wards completing the required series of specimens of various species already possessed, 

 and acquisitions of the first and second kinds above noticed have not been wanting. 



In the class of Mammalia especially, here so difficult to obtain recent specimens 

 of, have been added a Neelghai, an Axis Deer, a fine specimen of the adult male 

 Felis Chaus, one of Viverricula Indica, a young Monkey (Macacus Rhesus), of 

 which, though common in Bengal, we did not previously possess an example, a young 

 Mungoose (Herpestes griseus), and a considerable number of Bats, shot by myself, 

 and comprising at least some, if not several, undescribed species. 



From the Barrackpore menagerie, has been received a recent male Neelghai (Por- 

 tax pictus), and a male Silver Pheasant (Phasianus Nycthemerus). 



From P. Homphray, Esq., an emasculated Axis Deer ( Cervus Axis) , accompanied 

 by a note from which I extract the following particulars, and refer the reader to 

 my remarks on the growth of antlers in castrated Deer, published in p. 598, ante. 



" Mr. H. had this Deer castrated in June, 1839, on account of his being extremely 

 vicious : two or three weeks after the operation, he dropped his horns, and new ones grew 

 in their place, since which he has not shed his horns. Mr. H. need scarcely mention 

 that Deer when castrated do not afterwards [apud Buffon] renew their horns, except 

 as Mr. H. supposes in the present case [the preparatory processes for] the formation 

 of the new horns had commenced before castration ; after which operation, the skin 

 of the horns does not peel off as it does in all other cases when the horns arrive at 

 maturity, but continues to grow on thick and fleshy. Mr. H. has another castrated 

 Deer of the same species alive, whose horns are in the same state as those now sent, 

 and he also shed his horns once after castration." 



The specimen of C. Axis presented by that gentleman to the Society has the horns 

 of normal shape, and of tolerable size, but imperfectly developed towards their ex- 

 tremities, particularly rugous, and the thickened skin which invests them is almost 

 totally denuded of hair. 



