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Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, 

 for the month of June, 1847. — From the Surveyor General's Office. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, Nos. 3 to 6. — By the Editor. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, for June and July, 1847. — By the 

 Editors. 



Exchanged. 

 Journal Asiatique, No. 40. 

 The Athenamm, 13 Nos. for 1847. 

 The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, No. 84. 

 The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, No. 201, 



Purchased. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Nos. 125 and 126. 

 The Edinburgh Review, No. 172. 



Journal des Savans, for January, February and March, 1847. 

 The Calcutta Review, No. 14. 

 The North British Review, No. 12. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour the Curators' Reports were not 

 received.* The thanks of the Society were voted as usual to the donors 

 of books and papers, and of contributions to the Museum. 

 Report of Curator, Zoological Department. 



The following are the donations to which I have, upon this occasion, to 

 call the attention of the Society. 



1. From W. C. Thorburn, Esq. of Goalpara, I have received a collection 

 birds, reptiles, fishes, and Crustacea, which has added a few species to the 

 Museum, as the Emys dhonghoka, Gray and Hardwicke, and some small fishes 

 described by Buchanan Hamilton. 



2. Mr. J. Weaver has favored us with a small collection of sundries, chiefly 

 from the Sandheads ; comprising a small fish allied to Equula (which I have 

 not yet identified), two human foetuses, some sea Snakes, &c. 



3. Mr. J. Reeve has sent a small Crocodile, 5£ feet long, of the species 

 Crocodilus palustris, Lesson. 



4. E. B. Ryan, Esq. A stuffed specimen of a Leopard. 



5. J. C. Pepe, Esq. of Gurruckpore. A Boar skull, from the Nepal Terai, 

 of the species or variety having a broad occiput, noticed in XV, 135. 



6. Mr. E. Lindstedt. A Porcupine (Hystrix), of the common small spe- 

 cies inhabiting the Sunderbuns. 



7. Mr. Nathan Buckley. A specimen of a Limulus, or ' King Crab/ one 

 of two species common at the mouth of the river. The present one is dis- 

 tinguished (among other characters) by having a cylindrical tail : and one 

 sex only of the other corresponds to the definition of Tachypleus, Leach. 



8. Mr. C. J. Madge. A living Bat, of the species Megaderma lyra. This 

 Bat, which is the M. carnatica of Mr. Elliot, seems to be very generally 

 diffused throughout India, being replaced in the Malay countries by M. 



* Mr. Blyth's MS. of his report received subsequenty to the meeting is now 

 inserted. 



