1834.] Miscellaneous. 477 



Specimens of the shells and corals from the Isle of Socotra were pre- 

 sented )>y Mr. J. Curnin, on the part of Mr. H. V. Lynch. 



Specimens of the rocks in the jungle mehals, particularly of the strata 

 exposed to view by the new road, cut in the Katjor pass of the Dalma 

 range of hills, separating Burrabhum and Patkun from Dholbbdm and 

 Singhbhum ; were presented by Lieutenant Western, Engineers. 



The fossil tooth alluded to in Dr. SpiiiSBURY's last communication, was 

 received from Dr. Row. 



Specimens of basalt, white porcelain clay, coal, and pyrites from Sadiya 

 in Assam were presented by Lieutenant H. L. Bigge, Adjutant, Assam 

 Light Infantry. 



A note was read from Lieutenant Archbold, enclosing a letter from an 

 Officer of H. C. Sloop Coote, stating the impossibility of finding a convey- 

 ance for the mummy left there by him, in consequence of the prejudices 

 of the Mahomedan seamen. It had become necessary, after many endea- 

 vours to get it away from Mocha, to bury it at that place ! 



Read a letter from Lieutenant W. Foley, dated Khyook Phyoo, Arracan, 

 6th September, transmitting Journal of a tour through the Island of Ram- 

 ree, with a Geological Sketch of the country, and brief account of the cus- 

 toms, &c. of its inhabitants. 



Extracts from Lieutenant Foley's journal were read, and the thanks of 

 the Society were voted for his valuable communication. 



[The journal will be published in an early number.] 



A notice of a new coin with the monogram of figs. 1 and 8, Plate ix. of 

 Hindu coins, volume iii. Asiatic Society's Journal, was received from Major 

 Stacy, and read. 



A note by the Secretary was read, on the perfect identity of the inscrip- 

 tions of the lath of Feroz Shah at Dehli ; Bhim Sen's lath at Allahahad • 

 and the column bearing the same name near Bettiah. 

 [The notice of this curious and important fact will appear in the next number.] 



VI 1 1 . — Miscellaneous 



1. — On the making of Chinese Paper ; translated from the 23rd Volume of the 



Pun Tsaou Kang Muh. 

 [From the Trans. Soc. Arts, xlix. pt. 2.] 



In ancient times, bambus were connected together, and letters burnt on them, 

 to form books ; and hence the several characters employed to denote papers and 

 documents are formed partly with the character for " bambu." 



In the time of the Tsin and the Han dynasties, letters were written upon silk 

 cloth ; and hence the characters for silk and cloth are component parts of the 

 character used for paper. 



In the time of the Emperor Ho Te, (A. D. 100,) Tsac Lun began to take the 

 bark of trees, old silk of different kinds, fishing-nets, and hemp, and boil them to 

 rags, and make paper of them, which was used throughout the whole of the empire* 



