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356 The Secretary read a note by Mr. J. Haselden, communicated by Sir Sidney Saunders, relating to the habits of the honey-bee (Apis fasciata ?) in Egypt.

Mr. C.O. Waterhouse communicated a paper "On New Coleoptera from Australia and Tasmania in the Collection of the British Museum." — Hon. Sec.

is the officer in charge of the Government Elephant-catching Establishment in the province of Mysore, Southern India, which establishment, some few years ago, was instituted principally through his instrumentality and energy. It is here that most of his experience of wild animals has been gained from the time when he first set foot in India as a "griffin," and "an opportunity was afforded him of changing what had hitherto been his favourite recreation only — sport — into the business of his life." Having met with considerable success in capturing wild elephants in this province, he was appointed to the temporary charge of the Bengal Elephant-catching Establish- ment, and spent nine months in the wild and little-known region of the Garrow and Chiltagong hill-tracts, subsequently returning to Mysore. It will be readily conceded that a man who has enjoyed such opportunities, in such a country, for sport and the observation of wild animals, should be well qualified to write a book like the present. Indeed, as the author himself says, "Anyone who has devoted himself to Indian field sports for some years as I have done, must have been singularly unfortunate if he has not sufficient exciting facts noted in his journal to fill a book, without the necessity of resorting to fiction or exaggeration."

The game list of Mysore is a very attractive one, including as it does the following feræ naturæ:—Elephaut, Bison or Gaur, Tiger, Panther, Leopard, Cheetah, Bear, Wolf, Striped Hyæna,