£82 The late Dr. Malcolmson. 



Habit. — The rivers at the Sikkim passes on the northern frontier 

 of Bengal. 



We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Campbell Superintendent 

 of Darjeeling, for the three last specimens. They were received two 

 years since, and a description of them only withheld in hopes of 

 receiving further accessions from the same quarter. 



The late Dr. J. G. Malcolmson. F. R. S., G. S. 



Since the appearance of the last number of this Journal, the 

 death of J. G. Malcolmson, Esq. of Bombay, has been announced in 

 the public prints. Mr. M. belonged formerly to the Madras Medical 

 Service, which like the Medical Service generally in India, rarely 

 affords scope for men of enterprising character and talent. Mr. 

 Malcolmson after having distinguished himself as a medical officer 

 by the publication of an Essay on Berri Beri, and several geological 

 and other papers, became Secretary to the Medical Board of Madras. 



He vacated this office, and availed himself of furlough to Europe, 

 where he further distinguished himself by the discovery of fossil 

 fishes in the old red sandstone of his native country in the north 

 of Scotland, as well as by several communications to the Geological 

 and other Societies of which he was elected member. He also 

 formed upon that occasion an extensive connection with the princi- 

 pal scientific men of London and Paris, with whom he continued 

 afterwards to correspond till the period of his death. He resigned 

 the Honorable Company's Service, we believe, before he was entitled 

 to any pension, and joined the mercantile house of Forbes and Co. 

 of Bombay. Amidst the cares of mercantile pursuits, he still kept up 

 his scientific correspondence, and found time to devote a portion of 

 his energies to scientific occupations. He became Secretary to the 

 Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and was one of the chief 

 supporters and original projecters of a valuable Quarterly Journal 

 published by that Institution at Bombay. Mr. Malcolmson possessed 

 a high degree of public spirit and enterprize, directed by a sound 

 judgment. He was always foremost in undertaking works of 

 utility, aiding them no less by his example and intelligence, than by 



