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of this tongue across the strings produces a pretty rippling sound. It is 

 quite possible that in the hands of an accomplished performer a pleasing 

 result might be produced. 



Last year Mr. Wood- Mason exhibited a one-stringed banjo made of 

 bamboo from the Naga Hills. 



In it the principle of using for a string a small bundle of the fibres o£ 

 the cuticle raised in situ, instead of any foreign material, was also em- 

 ployed. 



Another instrument on the table is a sort of Banjo with one string of 

 brass wire and a pumpkin attached as a sounding board. I have not met 

 with the same form elsewhere. 



Mr. H. B. Medlicott exhibited a Meteorite from Eaipur, Central 

 Provinces, and read the follo\ving note regarding it — 



Hecord of the Sitathali Meteorite ofMh March, 1875. 



In May 1875, Mr. H. Eead, the Deputy Commissioner of Eaipur, 

 forwarded to the Indian Muse\im, Calcutta, a specimen of a meteorite that 

 fell in Sitathali, of the Zamindari NaiTa, about 62 miles east of Eaipur in the 

 Central Provmces. This would be about long. 82° 35' E., lat. 21° 15' N. The 

 fall is stated to have occurred at about 11 a. M. In the letter announcing 

 the presentation it is stated that a similar meteorite was said to have fallen 

 at the same moment three-quarters of a mile distant from the first fall. A 

 portion of this was also procured by Mr. Eead and, at the request of the 

 Trustees, forwarded to the Museum. Both specimens were now exhibited to 

 the Meeting. 



The most noteworthy circumstance of this fall is, that,- though foimd 

 at such a distance apart, the two pairs most unmistakeably fit. They weigh 

 respectively 2Ib8. oz. 430 grains, and Iflj. lOoz. 160gr. When united they 

 form a lump of j)eculiar shape, resembling a quarter segment of an 

 ovoid mass: — a principal convex surface, two secondary surfaces meeting this 

 and each other nearly at right angles, haviag a length of 5^ inches, 

 and a fourth, or basal surface of quadrant shape with a radius of 3 inches. 

 This last is unfortunately for the most part an artificial fracture ; all the 

 others having the usual black crust. There is a marked gradation of the 

 glazing action : the main convex sm"face is the smoothest, though stiU 

 betraying the granulation of the stone, and on it one can detect faintly, as 

 it were the trail of the fused matter, as swept fi'om the surface by the 

 resisting medium. The two principal secondary surfaces are slightly concave, 

 and dimpled : although the fihn is about as thick on these as on the main 

 surface, the roughness of the stone's texture is much less disguised, while 

 on the flat and dimpled surface of junction of the two pairs the glazing 

 film, though quite distinct, does not completely cloak the texture and colour 



