a garden of ornamental trees + Palms. They are all bachelors. The geologist has returned from nine months fighting at the front but he looked in good condition. Dr. [illegible] has done much systematic work on reptiles & fishes. He told me of a new or undescribed genus of lemurs he had seen a sketch of. The animal lives in Burma or Assam & the only specimen see was a pet which has escaped without a description being taken by any naturalist. 12 After tiffin I took a trip down the Hooghly in the ferry with Custerbine to the Botanic Gardens. We visited the great Banyan tree