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Proceedings of Societies . 
A ballot was taken agreeably to the regulations, for tbe office bearers of the en- 
suing year, when the election was declared by the scrutineers to have fallen on the 
following gentlemen : 
Vice-President , H. H. Wilson, Esq. Secretary and Treasurer , J. Adam, 
M. D. Assistant Secretary. W. Twining, Esq. Committee rj< Management, J. Grant, 
Esq. P. Breton, Esq- G. Waddell, AI. D C. G. Eger on, Esq. 
Committee of Papers — J Grant, Esq. J. Meilis, JV1.D. P. Breton, Esq. G. Wad- 
del, M.D. W. Camercm , Esq. C G Egerton, Esq. 
It was proposed and unanimously agreed to, that the senior members of the 
Madras and Bombay Medical Boards, he elected honorary Vice-Presidents, and 
that these B *nnis collectively l»e requested to become patrons of the society. 
The following gentlemen were elected members of the society, Messrs. Train, 
McKinnon, and J. Turner. 
The secretary laid on the table the papers which had been received since the 
preceding meeting, viz a communication from Mr. If Clark; a drawing of a 
tumour on the face of a native, and an account of Calculus in a native boy, by the 
same gentleman ; a case of popliteal aneurism in a native, successfully operated on 
by Air L nvrence of the Madras establishment. 
A letter was read from Mr. H. Piddington, submitting to the society two manu- 
script indexes, the first to the Linxtaean genera, and the second to the native and 
Lin mean names in the Hortus Bengalensis, forming a complete key to that work. 
Some private business being then dispatched, Air. Raleigh's paper on the use of 
Belladonna in extraction of the leas was read and discussed ; after which the meet- 
ing adjourned. 
VI. — Scientific Intelligence , &;c. 
In the translation of Baron Cuvier's Regne Animal, now in course of publication, 
a very full review of the order Ruminantia by Major C. II. Smith, F. R. S is insert- 
ed as a supplement to that order — It has been presented to the Asiatic Society 
by the author, who has at the same time addressed a letter to the. gentleman 
through whom it was presented, from which the following is an extract. We doubt 
not our Moofussil readers will be glad to see what are the obscure or doubtful 
points in this branch of Indian Zoology; nor are we without hopes, that it may 
prompt some valuablecorninimiratious, and we need hardly say how happy we shall 
be to find any of them destined for our pages. 
. “ My request to you and to all gentlemen residing in India, who take an interest 
in zoological studies, is to favour me with their criticisms on any or every view 
I have taken of the question ; also if you or any other gentleman would honour me 
by the transmission of drawings, measurements, descriptions, and manners of ani- 
mals of any cl ss, hut particularly of mammalia, birds or fish, and above all of 
ruminating species, I, and it may be added, zoologists in general, will feel the obli- 
gation. Although I am aware, that my friend General Hardwick has done much 
and is now extending his inquiries on Indian subjects, still there is room for a vast 
deal more than one man can do. I arn particularly solicitous about the Sanscrit, 
Hindustani, and Persian nomenclature, which you will perceive I have adverted to 
m my observations, but which, I am confident, are far from complete or even exact. 
It is surprising that we know so much more of the animals of Africa than of those 
oi India. I wish to have my views considered relative to the two distinct races if 
not species of buffalo ; the distinctness of species of the hunched domestic ox 7 of 
India, whether this species does not derive from thegayal. I wish to have more 
light on tbe Jemlah goat of the Himalaya mountain. 1 wish to have more infor- 
mation on the great stags of India, their species, manners, and habitat ; on the 
IVilgan, or the ’ ‘ ’ ’ * ’ 
Afri- 
appears to 
igau, or the strepsicerotine antelope, which was supposed to be exclusively 
i, but which, from a scull in the possession of General Hardwick, appea 
reside also m India? on the two (if two) species of quadricornis ; on the antelope 
(unicorn) oi Bhutan ; on the Bara Siuha oi India ; the Araon Chekora, the Jerrial 
&c. i wish lor information on the several axines of India, on the stao- n f th« 
Mariannas, on the Uhi of Raffles, the ccrfnoir of Blainville, the *fhrtr of Neptul on 
the several species of musks, &c. ‘ 
I shall also he happy to have a particular account of the hand, & c of the G ip-antic 
Oran-Ootan mentioned by my late friend Dr. Abel; and finally I tmt desires to 
have some observations on the existence of the Papua or Ethiopian race of man in 
some of the mountains of central India.’* pmu race oi man in 
