1833.] Asiatic Society. 45 
Collieries, for Engine and Reverberatory furnaces, in the ratio of 5'to4, The 
composition of the Coal tried at the Assay Office, was, 
Volatile matter or gas, .....- 38.5 
Carbon or coke, .. .. ...... 60.7 
Earthy impurities or ash, .. 0.8 
100.0 
The ash is wonderfully small : specific gravity of the Coal 1.275. 
4. Specimens of the Sandstone of Sikrigali, with vegetable impressions 
of ferns, &c. by Dr. Langstaff. 
“‘ The sandstone appears to correspond with that from Chira Punji with vege- 
table remains. This rock forms the bluff termination of the ridge immediately 
adjoining the river: below it, and I believe interstratified with it, is the perfectly 
horizontal stratum of silicious schist with impressions of ferns and mosses, and 
apparently the remains of shells. 
“ In the same situation are blocks of the hornblende rock, and basalt, abounding 
from Monghyr to Rajmahal. Although the trap formation is contiguous to the 
sandstone, the latter does not seem to have undergone any disturbance of its hori- 
zontal position, which would argue its formation to be more recent than the trap.” 
5. A letter from Dr. Spilsbury, announcing the dispatch of a specimen of 
fossil bone from Jabalpur. 
Library. 
A copy of his work on the “ Muhammedan Law of Inheritance,” present-. 
ed by N. B. E. Baillie, Esq. 
Ditto, of the 2nd edition of Wilson’s Sanscrit and English Dictionary, by 
the author. 
Read a letter from M. Burnouf, the Secretary, forwarding the follow- 
ing works from the Asiatic Society of Paris : 
Burnouf’s Vendidad Sadi, parts 5th to 9th. 
Cassin,—Almanach Philanthropique, 1 vol. 
Levassseur and Rutz,—Tableau d’Elemens Vocaux de l’Ecriture Chinoise. 
Brosset Jeune,—Chronique Georgienne, 1} vol. 
Deslongchamp’s Manava Dharma Sastra, 3rd part. 
A. L. Chezy’s Sacountala, 1 vol. 
The following Books from the Book-sellers. 
Niebuhr’s History of Rome, 2nd vol. 
Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopedia ;—the United States, 2nd vol. 
Literary. 
A Paper on the Origin and Classification of the Military Tribes of Nipal, 
by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
A Note by the same gentleman, on the Law and Legal Practice of Nipal, 
in matters of adultery or connection between a Hindoo and an outcast. 
Note on the Ceylon Coins, by the Secretary. 
The two coins transmitted by His Excellency, the Governor of Cey- 
lon, belong to the class described by Mr. Wilson, in the seventeenth 
volume of the Researches, and depicted in Plate V. figure 109 to 113, 
which are stated, like the present coins, to have been found by Colonel 
