142 Asiatic Society. [March, 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, No. 2 — by the Madras Literary So- 

 ciety. 



Abstract of Proceedings of the Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring 

 Central Africa, drawn up for publication — by J. C. Chase, Esq. Secretary. 



Map of various routes between Europe and India, comprehending Western and 

 Northern Asia, together with Asia Minor and Egypt — by Mr. J. B. Tassin. 



Meteorological Registers for January and February, 1834 — by the Surveyor 

 General. 



Translation of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes into the Madagascar language — by the 

 Madagascar Mission. 



Journal Asiatique, Nos, 67, 68 and 69 — by the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



The following 1 were received from the Booksellers : 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia — Greeks and Romans, 1st vol. 



■ Foreign Statesmen, 1st vol. 



Physical. 



Read a letter from Sir R. Colquhoun, expressing Mrs. Herbert's desire 

 that the Geological Specimens belonging to the Estate of the late Captain 

 Herbert should be presented to the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 



A further collection of Fossil Bones from the bed of the Jumna works 

 were presented on the part of Captain E. Smith, Engineers. 



The skin and skeleton of a large Rhinoceros were presented for the 

 museum, by Mr. J. H. Barlow, C. S. 



Read a letter from Colonel Watson, advising the dispatch of 30 maunds 

 of Coal from the new seam discovered by Mr. Cracroft and himself in the 

 Kasia hills, for trial at the Presidency. 



This coal agrees in composition with No. 12 of the table published in the 3rd 

 vol. Gleanings, page 283. The seam is from 16 to 20 feet thick, and spreads six 

 square miles in area ; indeed it extends through tbe whole district. 



Colonel Watson explained the particulars of the locality to the Meeting, and exhi- 

 bited the model of an apparatus on the principle of a suspension rail-rope for the 

 conveyance of the coal down the hill. The height is 4000 feet, and the longitu- 

 dinal distance If mile, over a very rugged rocky country, where the construction of 

 a road would be attended with great expence. 



Read a letter from Major James Wilkinson, Governor General's Agent, 

 Hazaribagh, forwarding a small specimen of coal picked up near Bhullea, a 

 village in Ramghur, 14 miles south of Hazaribagh. 



This coal resembles the Oogadong lignite, in having an infiltration of white matter 

 (silex ?) in its natural crevices. It is a rich lignite : sp. gr. 1.325. 



Further specimens of the Aeng coal were forwarded by Mr. Walters, 

 commissioner, Arracan. 



Read a note on the Chiru Antelope of Nepal, by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[This paper appears in a foregoing page.] 



Geographical. 



1. Journal of the Route from Dera Ghazi Khan, through the Veziri 

 country, to Cabul, by Dr. Martin Honigberger, communicated by Captain 

 C. M. Wade, Political Agent at Ludiana. 



The following extract from Captain Wade's letter was read. 



