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Col. Brigg’s Siyar-ul Mutakherin, a History of the Mahommedan Power in India 
during the last century, Ist vol. 
Atkinson’s Shah Nameh of Firdausi, translated in verse and prose, 1 vol, 
Fourth Annnual Report of the Oriental Translation Fund. 
The following books received from the book-sellers : 
Gray’s Indian Zoology, part xii. 
Lardner’s Cyclopedia, Spain and Portugal, vol. 4. 
Natural History. 
1. Dr. Wallich, Superintendent H. C.’s Botanic Garden, presented in the 
name of Professor Buckland, specimens of the coprolite, or fossil albums 
grecum, from the lias of Lyme-regis, Dorset. 
Some of these fossils are in their rough state, some are cut and polished, and 
there are plaster casts of other specimens in Dr. B.’s collection. 
2. A fragment of fossil bone, brought by himself from Jabalpur, was pre- 
sented by Major Benson. 
This fragment is enveloped in a hard greenish siliceous coat, which has also 
penetrated into the pores of the bone in many parts, and has taken the place of its 
animal matter, probably by the same process of infiltration which is observed in 
fossil wood from the same part of India. 
3. A further selection of the fossil shells of the Himalaya were received 
from Captain P. Gerard, on the part of his brother, Dr. J. Gerard, 
Several of these shells differ from those depicted in the Rev. R. Everest’s paper 
in the Physical Transactions, and will form the subject of a supplementary plate. 
Read extract of a letter from Lieut. Burnes, presenting specimens of As. 
bestos found between Peshawar and Kabul ;— 
Ditto Native Muriate of Ammonia from the province of Hissar, north of 
the Oxus ;— 
Ditto of the sand or silt suspended in the river Oxus ;— 
Ditto of sand from the Kharasm Desert between the Oxus and the Cas. 
pian. ; 
The President communicated the following circular, with a request from 
the Rev. W. Whewell of Cambridge, for any information which Members of 
the Asiatic Society might be able to supply on the subject of the tides of 
the Indian Coasts. 
Suggestions for Persons who have opportunities to make or collect observations of 
the Tides. 
“Ir was shewn by Newton, nearly 150 years ago, that the fact of the Tides and 
several of their circumstances, resulted from the law of the Universal Gravitation 
of matter. But in this interval of time scarcely any thing has been done which 
might enable us to combine into a general view the phenomena of the Tides as they 
take place in all the different parts of the world ; and at very few places have good 
and continued observations been made and published. It is conceived that by 
collecting such observations as have been made, or may easily be made, the con- 
nexion and relation of the Tides of all the parts of the Ocean may be in a short 
time clearly made out ; and that persons may be induced to make such careful 
observations as may serve to be compared with the theory. In this hope the pre- 
sent paper is circulated. 
