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stream down the sides of the punch howl, thus strangely sunk in a nearly level 

 country, there being but a gentle rise to the edge. The crystals of salt fouud at 

 .the bottom by the divers who remove it for purposes of commerce are tabular. 

 Between this and che hot springs of Ka'ro others are found, and the direction of the 

 range corresponds with the dykes described by VoYSEYin the Hyderabad country." 



A note from Capt. F. Jenkins to the Secretary intimated the discovery of 

 limestone in Assam. 



" I find the shell lime of Sylhet extends across to Assam in the direction of 

 Dharmpur ; it having been discovered on the right bank of the Kopili — a discovery 

 of no small importance to us : no lime before Laving been known to exist in Assam 

 nearer than the Brahmakund." 



A Persian letter from Shekh Keramat Ah at Cabul, accompanied a 

 package of the fruit and flower seeds of that country^ and some specimens 

 of lead and antimony ores. 



Tiie seeds ware unfortunately nearly spoiled on their way down by the rain. 

 They were made over to Dr. Wallich's care. 



Extracts from the letter before alluded to of Prof. Wilson, were read. 



Professor Buckland had been much gratified with the duplicates of Dr. J. G. 

 Gerard's fossil shells selected and transmitted for his examination. He found 

 them to corroborate in every respect a view of the distribution of the ammonites, 

 on the subject of which he had recently been delivering a lecture to the Ashmolean 

 Society at Oxford : he had no doubt, although doubts had been very justly enter- 

 tained before, that the formation to which these shells belonged in India was 

 allied to the Lias of Europe. We shall look with eagerness for the report of this 

 high authority, which promises to confirm the opinion of our associate the Rev. 

 R. Everest on the subject. A most valuable article on the species and distribu- 

 tion of ammonites, by De Buch, appears in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles 

 of May, 1833, which we regret our inability to transfer to the Journal : it contains 

 plates of all the varieties of this fossil hitherto discovered in the Himalaya range. 



The business of the evening being concluded, The Right Rev. the Vice- 

 President rose and addressed the meeting : — 



It had been suggested to him that the death of the Rev. Dr. Carey, one of the 

 oldest and warmest supporters of the Asiatic Society, was an occasion which called 

 for some testimonial of the sense entertained by all its members of the value of his 

 Bervices to the literature and science of India, and of their sincere respect for his 

 memory. 



He had himself enjoyed but two short interviews with that eminent and good 

 man, but a note from Dr. Wallich, who was prevented himself from attending to 

 propose the resolution, supplied his own want of information. Dr. Carey had 

 been 28 years a member of the Society : and (with exception of the last year or 

 two of his life, when protracted illness forced him to relinquish his Calcutta 

 duties), a regular attendant at its meetings, and an indefatigable and zealous mem- 

 ber of the Committee of Papers since the ye;u- 1807. 



He had enriched the Society's publications with several contributions : — an inter* 

 esting report on the agriculture of Dinajpur, appeared in the tenth volume of the 

 Researches. An account of the funeral ceremonies of a Burman priest in the 

 twelfth : — The catalogue of Indian medicinal plants and drugs in the 11th voL 

 bearing Dr. Fleming's name, was also known to have been principally derived 



