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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Natural Science 1887

1888

We have moreover in the Himalayas a meeting ground of Pallearotic Indian and Malay forms; and for the elucidation of the complex questions of station and habitat of species strict accuracy is required in lists of forms inhabiting merely political divisions of the Himalayas. [...] In short without much balancing of evidence it was impossible to draw up a correct list of the bats of Nepal from the writings of the authors I have referred to ; and I consequently determined to investgate the whole question with the aid of the specimens I had myself collected. [...] There is no mention of any bat on page 36 of the Proceedings of the Zoologcal Society for 1836 ; the page should be 46 and there will be found the name only of Pteropus pyrivorus whose characters have to be sought for in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ' that is to say in Hodgson's original description in Vol. [...] A glance at any recent large scale map of India will show the broad valley of the Gandak river stretching from the plains into the Nepal hills and Nowakot in the valley of the Trisul Gangs the eastern affluent of the Gandak. [...] perniger to the British Museum but he gave a skeleton of the species to the Asiatic Society in 1842 which is at present in the collection of the Indian Museum.
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Pages
155
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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XVII.—On the Chiroptera of Nepal.—by J. Scully
233-259 The Natural History Secretary view
XVIII.—Notes on some Recent Neolithic and Palæolithic Finds in South India.—By R. Bruce Foote F. G. S. Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India Fellow of the University of Madras.—Communicated by the Superintendent of the Indian Museum
259-282 The Natural History Secretary view
XIX.—E’tude sur les Arachnides de l’ Asie Méridionale Faisant Partie des Collections de l’ Indian Museum (Calcutta).—Par M. E. Simon de Paris. Communicated by the Superintendent of the Indian Museum
282-287 The Natural History Secretary view
XX.—A Memoir on Plane Analytic Geometry.—By Asutosh Mukhopadhyay M. A. F. R. A. S. F. R. S. E. Communicated by the Hon’ble Mahendralal Sircar M. D. C. I. E.
288-349 The Natural History Secretary view
XXI.—A Descriptive List of the Uredineæ Occurring in the Neighbourhood of Simla (Western Himalayas).—By A. Barclay M. B. Bengal Medical Service
350-375 The Natural History Secretary view
XXII.—Natural History Notes from H. M.’s Indian Marine Survey Steamer ‘Investigator ’ Commander Alfred Carpenter R. N. Commanding No. 8. Description of a New Species of the Brachyurous Genus Lyreidus from the Depths of the Andaman Sea.—By J. Wood-Mason Esq. Superintendent of the Indian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in the Medical College of Bengal Calcutta
376-376 The Natural History Secretary view
Index
377-381 The Natural History Secretary view
Plate
i-iv The Natural History Secretary view

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