1852.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 433 



accuracy the absolute time, whether near, or true, at which the shock 

 occurred at any given locality, (although this was very important when 

 it was possible,) but to fix with the greatest attainable accuracy the 

 exact relative time at which the same shock was felt at different and 

 distant localities. There would always be some difficulty in doing 

 this accurately, but he believed that in many instances it had not even 

 been attempted ; although he thought much service might be done, if 

 the attention of observers were directed to this enquiry." 



The Librarian and the Curator of the Zoological Museum submitted 

 their reports for the last month. 



Thanks having been voted for the above communications and pre- 

 sents — the meeting adjourned. 



(Signed) Jas. Colvile. 



Confirmed, June 2nd, 1852. 



Report of Curator, Zoological Department, for May, 1852. 



The following donations have been received : — 



1. From Capt. Berdmore, Madras Artillery. A box of skins from 

 Mergui, comprising several species of much interest. 



Among the Mammalia, is a specimen of Galjeopithecus volans, not 

 heretofore obtained from so northern a locality ; Sciukus chrysonotus, 



nobis; — Mus ? Affined to M. flavescbns, Gray, except that its 



upper-parts are of a much darker colour, and the caudal rings and seta? 

 are very much coarser ; the white lower-parts contrasting strongly ; an 

 adult, \ grown young, and small young ; — and, lastly, an imperfect skin of 

 a young calf of the Tsain or " Wild Ox" of the Tenasserim provinces, 

 Bos sondaicus, Muller, which there co-exists with Bos gatjrus but not 

 the Bos FRONTALIS.* 



* So far as we have seen, the horns of B. gaurus of the Tenasserim provinces 

 and Malayan peninsula are constantly shorter and somewhat more abruptly curved 

 than in Indian specimens ; and the following description of the Malayan animal 

 would seem to indicate that perhaps the species is not absolutely the same, how- 

 ever closely it may be affined. In the Journal of " a trip to the Moar river" dis- 

 trict, published in the ' Journal of the Indian Archipelago, Vol. IV, p. 354, two 

 species of wild cattle are mentioned, one called Sapandang, the other Sapi ; and the 

 following is a description of a cow of the latter taken from the freshly killed animal. 

 " The Sapi has much appearance of the Bali cattle" (Bos sondaicus), " but has 

 not the white patch on the buttocks ; the horns are small, curved inwards, white 

 tipped with black ; the forehead is flat, with a tuft of long hair ou it, particularly 



