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ing of the 21th October, " to enter into correspondence with the Asiatic 

 Society." 



2. A letter from the Baron de Ferussac, dated Paris, the 10th April, ac- 

 knowledged the receipt of a copy of Gleanings in Science, and ex- 

 pressed a desire on the part of the " Societe du Bulletin Universel" to 

 enter into relations with the Asiatic Society, and to introduce to its Members 

 M. Richy, Juge de la Kacherie a Chandernagore (now a Member of our 

 Society.) 



The Baron de Ferussac brings to the notice of Naturalists in India, his 

 work on the Mollusca, now in the course of publication, £of which a pros- 

 pectus was printed on the cover of our last number.^] 



3. A letter from Mr H. Piddington was read, presenting in the name of 

 Dr. Harlan, of Philadelphia, the following works : 



1. Andubon's Ornithological Biography. 



2. Nos. 2, 3, and 5 of Featherstonhaugh's Monthly American Journal of Geo- 

 logy and Natural Science. 



3. Description of a fossil Fucus and fossil bones, by R. Harlan, M. D. 



4. Description of the Arvicola Nuttali, by ditto. 



Museum. 



A letter was read from Dr. Spry, announcing, that he has transmitted to 

 the Society a magnificent specimen of a silicified palmyra tree from Sagar : 

 also four specimens of the strata observed in digging a well in the jail at 

 that station. 



" Sagar is nearly surrounded by a chain of basalt hills ; not in one continuous 

 range, but with here and there a break. About a mile and half N. E. of Sagar on 

 the Jabalpur road, a bed of limestone partly in mass and partly crystallized, juts 

 outat the foot of a range of these hills, and in the bed of a little stream, which is 

 dry, except in the rains, and which runs over this limestone bed, these fossil trees 

 are found. Captain Sleeman was the first to observe them. Three or four specimens 

 as large as the one now sent have been removed. They are seen protruding 

 through the soil, which on being removed, exposes the entire root. Masses of the 

 truuk are observed lying about, but an entire trunk has not yet been discovered. 



Specimens of rocks and minerals from Mr. W. Cracroft, to complete 

 his series of the geology of Chira Punji. 



Among these are several specimens of sandstone, with vegetable impressions of 

 twigs and wood ; some of the Chira and Pandua limestones, with their distinct 

 shells : finely crystalline fibrous actinolite ; some very pure white porcelain clay, 

 and some gold dust, with magnetic iron sand, as washed from the sand of the 

 Brahmaputra river. Also, through Mr. G. Swinton, some of the auriferous pyrites 

 from Dr. Lamb. 



The Secretary presented specimens of zeolites, received from Mr. B. Noton 

 of Bombay ; among them a fine transparent greenish prismatic apophyllite. 



Dr. Strong communicated a report on the progress of the boring in Fort 

 William. 



A third shaft has been opened to the depth of 82 feet, with a very large auger, 

 and appearances are hitherto promising. No well was sunk above the shaft. 



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