JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Mr. BlyiKs monthly Report for December Meeting ', 1842, with 

 Addenda subsequently appended.* 



Sir, — The following donations have been received since our last 

 Meeting : — 



1. From the Barrackpore establishment. 



A fine old male of the Wandaroo Monkey ( Macacus SilenusJ. The 

 skin has been mounted, and the skeleton also set up. 



A recent example of the Rhizomys badius, Hodgson, received from 

 Arracan. This animal entirely accords with Mr. Hodgson's descrip- 

 tion in Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. No. V, 60: and I have also had both 

 its skin and skeleton set up. 



Also a recent example of what I am assured is the Sikim breed of 

 long-haired domestic Goat, being (if 1 remember rightly) the same as 

 that erroneously figured by Mons. F. Cuvier as the Kashmir or Shawl 

 Goat, and nearly similar to the mixed race produced between the latter 

 and the Angora Goat. In our present specimen, the hair is excessive- 

 ly copious, as fine as that of the human head, and straight; being 

 comparatively short on the fore- quarters, where it does not exceed five 

 inches in length ; on the back h averages nine inches ; and on the 



* The lateness of the appearance of this and subsequent monthly Reports due up to 

 the present time, is owing to the ch-cumstance of my having been too much occupied 

 at the time the arrears of the Journal were brought up, to pass them severally under 

 review prior to their being laid before the public, for the purpose of incorporating 

 what additional information 1 had received bearing on the subjects treated of, and which 

 it was desirable should be brought forward upon the same occasion. — E. B. 



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