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By Sir Alexander Johnston. — (Continued.) 



A vegetable ring. 



Two tusks of the sea-horse. 



Specimens of cat's eye, and other stones. 



Specimen of the lapis cordialis, said to be an antidote for the poison of a serpent. 

 (Vide Rumphius, Rareteithamer, p. 338.) 



Specimens of snake-stones. (See Davy's Ceylon, p. 100.) 



spinelle Ruby. 



bezoar stones. 



silk cotton, from the Bcmibax Pentandrium. 



Five pair of betel-nut cutters. 



A wooden cup and cover, made of the wood of a medicinal tree, and used by the 

 natives of Ceylon as a remedy for attacks of intermittent fever. 



A specimen of petrified palm-tree from Antigua. 



A Singhalese hand punkah, or fan, made of crimson flowered silk, and the handle 

 of ivory, carved and painted. This was the kind of fan the native kings of 

 Kandy used to present when conferring the dignity of Chief Priest of a maritime 

 province in the island ; the dignity being held by possession of the fan. The 

 particular fan presented to the Society by Sir Alexander Johnston was the pro- 

 perty of the last chief priest on whom that rank was conferred in Ceylon. 



A Singhalese hand punkah, made of the leaf of the Talp5t palm, and ornamented 

 with mica. 



A long fan made of a leaf of the TalpHt palm, ornamented with mica. 



A circular fan made of the leaf of the Talp5t palm, ornamented with mica. 



A stand, upon which flowers are offered to the images of Buddha; painted by a 



Buddhist priest in Ceylon. 

 A box used between 1694 and 1712 by Mangama, Queen Regent of Madura, as a 

 depository for state-papers. The box is of an octangular form, and has represen- 

 . tations of the various trades of the country painted upon it. On the lid is a Nautch 

 girl performing, with musicians, and in compartments round the sides, are the 

 carpenter, smith, cloth-weaver, potter, &c. &c. 



By Lieut.- Colonel Charles Hopkinson, Madras ArtiUery, C.B. M.R.A.S. J^ov. 3, 1827. 



The following articles from the Burman Empire : 

 Four brass images of Buddha, or Gaudma. 

 Two large alabaster images of ditto. 

 One small image of Buddha, in polished black wood. 

 One small ditto, ditto, in crystal. 

 One large piece of petrified wood. 

 Specimens of petrified cocoa-nut and tamarind tree. 

 A pair of smitii's forge bellows. 

 A pair of rattan foot-balls. 



