PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE HOYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY. 
I. 
PTJETHEE NOTES OJST THE IDENTIFICATION OE THE ANI- 
MALS AND PLANTS OE INDIA, WHICH WERE KNOWT^" 
TO EAELY GEEEK AUTHOES. By Y. HALL, M.A, E.E.S., 
Director of tlie Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 
[Read May 23, 1887.] 
11^" the present communication I propose to deal — but by no means 
exhaustively, and perhaps not finally — with some further infor- 
mation which I have acquired in support of the identifications given 
in my original Paper^ on this subject. While I have seen no reason to 
change or alter any of the identifications, I believe it may assist in 
their general acceptance to lay before the Academy the further evi- 
dence in support of them which is contained in the following pages. 
Although it is perhaps scarcely necessary to emphasize the im- 
portance of, nor to specify the advantage which is to be derived from, 
the application of a scientific method to the analysis of these old 
myths, still I cannot but refer to the remarks by the late Professor 
EoUeston, in which he condemns the sneers with which attempts to 
preserve the unities of time and place in faunas have been met in some 
quarters. And many naturalists will doubtless concur in his remark, 
^ These Froceedinffs, 2nd Ser., vol. ii., p. 513 (Pol. Lit. and Antiq.), and re- 
published in tlie Indian Antiquary, Bombay. 
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