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Stirling’s Cursory Notices on the Isle of France, 1827—by the Author. 
Meteorological Registers for March and April—by the Surveyor General. 
From the Society’s Booksellers :— 
Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopedia,—History of England, vol. iii. 
Ditto ————— Military Commanders, vol. iii. 
A letter was read from Captain F. Jenkins, presenting a Burma manu- 
script from Sudiya, in the dialect of the Kamtis, the tribe who possess that 
part of Assam. 
Antiquities. 
Lieutenant Burnes exhibited to the Meeting his collection of ancient 
coins made between Cabul and Bokhara, and an explanatory note was read 
by the Secretary. 
Two papers were read by Lieutenant Burnes in further elucidation of the 
same subjects. ’ 
1. On the Tope or mound of Manikyala, and other similar fopes in the 
Panjab. 
2. Account of asect calling themselves the descendants of Alexander the 
Great in the valley of the Oxus. 
[These will appear in a future number. ] 
Physical. 
The following donations for the geological cabinet were presented : 
1. A fragment of a large fossil bone from Jabalpir—by Dr. Spilsbury. 
In connection with the same subject Dr. Row writes from Benares, that he has 
despatched under charge of Mr. Colley a box containing a further supply of Jabal- 
pur fossil bones. 
Doctor Spilsbury has since had the good fortune to make a further enviable dis- 
covery at a place about 60 miles from Jabalpfir,—the jaw of a fossil elephant with the 
teeth quite perfect. It remains to be seen whether this interesting specimen belongs 
really to the elephant or to some of the gigantic quadrupeds of the same genus 
brought to our knowledge by the great Cuvier ; the Mastodon of America, which 
is supposed to occur in no other part of the world ; the hippopotamus of Peru ; or 
the rhinoceros of northern Asia. 
Dr, Row has forwarded the section and plan alluded to by Dr. Spilsbury in his 
communication read to the Society at the meeting of March last. 
The following specimens from Arracan—by Mr. H. Walters, acting com- 
missioner. 
1. Two bottles of water procured by Lieut. Mackintosh from a thermal 
spring found near the top of the Aeng pass. 
2. A bottle of mineral oil or naphtha, from Ramree. 
3. A few specimens of rocks picked up at Ramree and the Aeng pass. 
4. Coal from the Sandowy district. 
The red hill of Ramree is composed of red clay iron, enclosing nodules of stea- 
tite, of a light grey colour, black streaked steatitic iron oxyd resembling hematite 
and a conglomerate of felspar and quartz pebbles. At the foot of the hill occurs 
silicious breccia, which appears as if it had been an infiltration of silicious veins 
in the crevices of the red clay which was subsequently crumbled or washed away, 
the interstices being now filled with common mud. 
