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former edition was nearly expended, it was Resolved, that a new catalogue 

 be printed, comprising also the objects in the Museum. 



Mr. J. T. Pearson, inquired whether any steps had been taken regard- 

 ing the matter of compounding for subscriptions : Resolved, that a report 

 be requested from the Committee appointed on the 26th June last, to con- 

 sider the subject. 



Physical. 



Read a letter from Major Burney, Resident of Ava, forwarding a col- 

 lection of mineralogical specimens, consisting of : 



Ores of lead, copper, antimony, iron and arsenic : and rock specimens, from 

 the Shan country to the east of Ava. 



Sulphate of lime, from the petroleum wells at Yenangyoung. 



Specimens collected by Captain Macleod in a journey to Manipur : of copper 

 ore from Laypadoung on the Khyendwen river : — also of hornblende, volcanic 

 rocks, and saline efflorescence from a sulphureous lake called Myouk dwen 

 (northern well) near Lemye on the left bank of the Khyendwen. 



Also, coal from the Angoching bills, fossil wood from Taroup myo, left of the 

 Irawadi river ; and the sand from which gold is washed at Kenau immediately above 

 Kendat on the Khyandwen river. 



Waters from the lake above mentioned and from a well in the neighbourhood 

 (unexamined), and a root from Shan, smelling like celery, used with clothes to give 

 tLem a scent. 



Major Burney writes : — " During my last journey up here I collected a good 

 many fossil specimens near Yenangyoung, and particularly teeth of the Mastadon, 

 and Elephantoides. Captain Macleod also during his late journey by water to 

 Kendat (Gendah of our maps) found much of the country in that quarter indicating 

 the presence of fossil remains, and picked up several portions of the jaws of the 

 Mastodon, and Elephantoides with teeth. The Burmese ministers have ordered 

 their officers at Yenangyoung to gather all the fossil bones they can for me, and 

 as soon as I procure a large collection, I will send the whole to you for examina- 

 tion." 



A series of geological specimens from Southern India, was presented by 

 Lieutenant Braddock on the part of a gentleman at Madras. 



They consisted principally of : 



Gneiss, greenstone, laterite, aud magnetic iron ore from the Neelgiris. 



The garnet-gneiss, of Coimbatoor and Salem. 



The decomposing mica-schist, and gneiss ; yellow earth ; — felspar with magne- 

 tic iroc, and quartz with ochreons clefts ; — all which are washed (with or without 

 previous burning) for gold, in the large gold district of Mysore. 



Two handsome varieties of porphyry from Seringapatam. 



Shell limestone from 12 miles W. of Pondicherry used for ornamental pur- 

 poses. 



Sandstone, slate-clay and other rocks of the Southern diamond formation, 

 which have been fully described by Dr. Heyne and Voysey. 



Specimens of the volcanic mud from Kyook Phyoo, presented by Captain 

 Warden. 



Antiquities. 



The Secretary submitted a translation of the inscription in the Pali and 

 Burma character on the large monumental stone from Arracan, presented 



