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THROUGH HON'BLE SlR J. W. CoLVILE. 



Notes of a tour in the Plains of India, the Himalaya, and Borneo ; being 

 extracts from private letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker. Part II. Calcutta to Dar- 

 jiling. London 1849, 8vo. — By the same. 



Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at 

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An Historical Account of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. London 1/89. 

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A short Life of the Apostle Paul, in Sanskrit verse. Calcutta 1850. 13mo. 

 (2 copies).— By J. Muir, Esq., C. S. 



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

 for the month of March 1850. — By the Deputy Surveyor General. 



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Annals and Magazine of Nat. History for Februarv, 1850. 



Comptes Rendus. Tome XXIX. Nos. 25-7. 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — I have the honour to present the following report of donations 

 made to the Zoological Department of the Society's Museum during the 

 months of March and April. 



1. From Dr. Kelaart, Staff Asst. Surgeon, Newera Elia. A small col- 

 lection of birds' skins from that locality, comprising several undescribed 

 spefcies. 



2. Lt. James, N. I. Sellections from a collection of skins of Mammalia 

 and Birds, made in Kunawar, Kashmir, and Tibet. 



3. Babu Rajendra Mallika. Specimens of Lemur niger, GeofFroy, and 

 Gazella subgutturosa, female ; also carcass of a female Nilgai. 



4. Mr. Moxon, of the Pilot Service. Some fine examples of Larus 

 icthyaetus, Pallas, and skeleton of this bird and of Onichoprion anasthwtus. 



5. Mr. W. Driver. Carcass of an adult female Hylobates hoolock, 



6. Mr. G. K. Rode. Caterpiller of an Acherontia. 



7. Mr. Muller. 3 species of Ophidia, from Darjeling. 



8. Capt. Sherwill. A few shells from the vicinity of Rajmahal. 



9. Capt. Thos. Brodie. Skin with horns of apparently a large female of 

 the animal described by Mr. Hodgson in No. XXXVII. (N. S.J of the 

 Society's Journal, by the name Budorcas taxicolor. N. B. Various skins 

 of this species have at various times been presented to the Society, by Major 

 Jenkins, and Capt. E. L. Smith of Sadiya ; but only one, a female, in a fit 

 condition to be set up, which has been mounted. I had postponed descri- 

 bing it until I could obtain a perfect skull j and may here remark that I be- 

 lieve its affinities to be strictly Caprine, with little relation either to the 

 Bovine group or to the Gnoos (CatoblepasJ, notwithstanding the very re- 

 markable form of the horns. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



E. Blyth. 



