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2. N<3 fresh information can however be obtained beyond that con- 

 tained in my No. 927, dated 30th July, to the address of the Punjab 

 Government 



3. I beg to append a copy of a letter received from Monsr. Haid- 

 inger. Director General of the Imperial Geological Institute of Austria, 

 dated Vienna, 14th November, 1860, on the subject of these meteoric 

 Stones. 



4. In reply to this letter I forwarded a copy in extenso of my 

 account of the fall of Aerolite referred to above, and begged the 

 favour of their furnishing copies to each of the Institutions for which 

 specimens were requested 



5. I packed a box with 14 specimens of the Aerolite, and des- 

 patched this to the Private Secretary of His Excellency the Governor 

 General, with a request that he would, after taking out certain speci- 

 mens which were intended for His Excellency the Governor General, 

 forward the box to Vienna in the manner directed. 



6. One of the specimens was, as vsdll be observed from the letter, 

 intended for the British Museum. 



7. I have, however, now sent the only remaining two specimens* I 

 could procure to Lahore for transmission to the Secretary of State 

 for India, either for presentation to the British Museum, or the 

 Museum attached to the late India House, or for the acceptance of 

 Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. 



8. The specimen now sent is the largest of any that has been des- 

 patched from Dhurmsalla, and being beyond the weight authorized 

 for banghy parcels, I was under the necessity of forwarding it to 

 Jullunder by coolies, and thence by Government Bullock-train to 

 Lahore. 



9. When worked up into handles for walking sticks or riding 

 whips, the metallic substance is clearly visible. 



10. As to the precise form of the Aerolite no positive information 

 could be obtained, for it was found in fragments, and its intense cold- 

 ness has been mentioned in the report before submitted. 



1 1 . The original of the letter from Vienna, together with a printed 

 paper giving the falls of former Meteorolites, and an account of them 



* No. 1, of the fragment that fell at Bowarua. No. 2, of the large stone that fell at 

 Dhurmsalla. 



