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other parts of Southern India, (fee. I found many small flakes of 

 obsidian scattered about, evidently chips struck off in the formation 

 of stone implements. I had before found the same in many places in 

 Abyssinia, near Zoulla and close to Magdala amongst others, but they 

 were more remarkable here, as no volcanic rock from which they could 

 have been derived exists in the neighbourhood. 



We marched from Rairo into the Lebka, returned along the stream 

 to Ain, and thence crossed the desert by the direct route to Massowa. 

 I halted for 3 clays at Amba, 30 miles N. W. of Massowa, in order to 

 endeavour to obtain specimens of the Oryx Beisa. In this I was 

 successful. The Oryx occur singly or in small herds and keep near 

 the places where water is found, as they drink every day. They are 

 very beautiful antelopes, as large as a wild ass and with very much 

 the same colour, form and movement. I killed 4 altogether and have 

 preserved 2 skins and a skeleton. Ostriches also occur in this part of 

 the country but we saw none. 



At Amba, the halting-place where I killed the Oryx, we met a party 

 of Egyptian officers engaged in surveying a line for an electric tele- 

 graph from Massowa to Suakin. We finally returned to Massowa on 

 the 23rd August. Mr. Jesse left by the Egyptian steamer for Suez. 

 My remaining companion and myself, after being kept till the 29th, 

 succeeded in chartering a small open boat to carry us to Aden. 

 Luckily we had a fair wind as far as Perim and we reached Aden on 

 the 3rd September. 



After a few remarks made by the President on the great interest 

 which attaches to this paper, the meeting broke up. 



Library. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 the last meeting. 



*^* The names of the Donors in capitals. 



Presentations . 



Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu 

 Beilim 1866. — By the Academy. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 

 157, Part IL —By the Royal Society of London. 



