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" Dans la mois de Janvier dernier me trouvant campe* entre l'Hidaspe et l'ln- 

 dus, je me disposais a faire des nouvelles recherches et visiter moim£me plusieurs 

 ruines que je savais exi?ter dans ces eontre^s lorsqu'un coup de paralysie vint m'ar- 

 reter dans nies dispositions : alors j'envoyais ines gens a la decouvevte et je fus 

 assez heureux de les voir retourner avec une collection de belles medailles que je 

 viens de remettre au cher M. Wade qui vous les fera parvenir, je le pense, par 

 les soins de M. Allard qui se rend a Calcutta incessamment : mais, n'ayant pas 

 gte* sur les lieux moimdme, je ne puis accompagner ces medailles que de quelques 

 notes des endroits ou elles out £te" trouv^es." 



Physical. 



Fossil shells, part of the foot of a tortoise, and various minerals, (includ- 

 ing coal,) from Ramree, were received from Lieutenant Foley. 



A note to Lieutenant Archbold respecting the shipment of the mummy 

 from Mocha was communicated. The Malak~ul Bahr was to have brought 

 it, but the crew refused to keep it on board after it had been shipped. 



A letter was read from Captain Cautley, dated Delhi, the 14th October, 

 descriptive of the collection of fossil bones made by Serjeant Dean, from 

 the Jumna, and stating, that he was deterred from making further presen- 

 tations to the Society's museum, on account of the expence of conveyance 

 from so great a distance. In reference to this subject, it was moved by the 

 Secretary, seconded by Dr. J. Tytler, and Resolved unanimously, 



" That Serjeant Dean be remunerated for the expences incurred by him 

 for the transmission of fossils from the Upper Provinces to Calcutta, and 

 that the Society will be happy to be at the further expence of carriage of 

 any other fossils with which Serjeant Dean may have it in contemplation 

 to favor the Museum, from the same deposit." 



Captain Cautley's letter gives the following additional particulars of the 

 fossil bone deposit in the Sewulik hills : and of the subterranean town at 

 Behat, 



" This is a favorable opportunity of reporting progress on the fossil discove- 

 ries of the lower hills (Sewalik), which are going on even more flourishingly than 

 I could have expected, considering that the only means of continuing the search 

 during the rainy months were in carting fragments of the rock from the deposit 

 to my house. The fossils are even now not only nuirerous, but rich in the remains 

 of a great vareity of species : Saurian and Chelonian, both Emys and Tiyonin, are 

 most abundant : of the Saurian, the teeth of two varieties correspond very closely 

 with the existing Alligator (or magar of the natives) , and the Gharial (or Gavial 

 of naturalists) : there appears to be a third variety of teeth of this order, as well as 

 the jaw-bones of two of a smaller claw of lacertine animals, one specimen of which is 

 exceedingly interesting, consisting of the lower half jaw, with one cheek-tooth, well 

 fossilized. Of Mammalia, three families are very distinct, Solipeda, Ruminantia' 

 and Rodentia, the former in one solitary specimen of an incisor of some animal 

 of the horse species, the second of a variety of teeth of deer, the third of rats ; 

 besides these, there are a great variety of teeth, which from want of experience 

 and want of books of reference, I am unable to recognize. Some bones also, 

 about which, for the reasons above mentioned, I can say nothing: two specimens 

 of fishes' vertebrae, and some undoubted teeth of Squalus, or some voracious species, 



