1837.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 79 



and much exceeding in size, as was remarked by Colonel Colvin, any that had 

 been found in the Sewalik range, many vertebrae and unidentified bones and 

 horns, tortoise fragments, aud a peculiarly perfect saurian head. The special 

 thanks of the Society were voted to Lieutenant Fulljames for his magnificeut 

 donation. 



[We shall take an early opportunity of lithographing some of the most curious 

 of these specimens. — Ed.] 



Lieutenant Fulljames mentions that he is now employed in sinking a bore 

 at Gogo, about five miles from Perim. It has been already carried to 250 feet: — 

 the last 150 through an immense bed of blue clay, containing pyrites aud 

 shells, resembling the muscle : — the deepest bed of sandstone was thirty feet, 

 but it differed essentially from the bone stratum of Perim. 



A skeleton of the common hog (sus scrofa,J was presented by Dr. A. 

 R. Jackson, mounted in the museum. 



Mr. William Cbacboft presented to the Society a large variety of 

 objects of Natural History, collected by himself during his residence in 

 New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land ; accompanied with an illus- 

 trative notice. 



( This collection contained three volumes of a hortus siccus of the chief indi- 

 genous plants of these colonies — a rich series of ornithology and concho- 

 tomy — and specimens of the fossil shells, fossil wood, and minerals of which the 

 islands present so many fertile deposits ; ores of lead, copper, and iron, have 

 been discovered, but are not yet worked, and coal is plentiful. 



[The author's notes will be inserted hereafter. — Ed.] 



Dr. G. Evans exhibited to the meeting a very large skull of an animal 

 generally considered to be the Bison of Indian forests, which he recog- 

 nized as the Gaur (Bos gaurus), and distinguished from the skull so 

 named in the museum. 



[The note, outline, and arguments pro and con shall have early insertion.] 



It was moved by Sir Benjamin Malkin, seconded by Colonel Colvin, 

 and carried unanimously, 



That, with reference to the rapid increase of the museum, particularly 

 in the department of fossil geology, and to the limited funds at the 

 Society's disposal, the subscription of individual members shall be in- 

 vited for the preparation of cabinets and other improvements connected 

 with this highly important branch of the Society's researches, and that the 

 Secretary do circulate a notice to this effect to members of the Society. 



[The sum subscribed by members present is insetted on the cover notice, to 

 which the attention of members is invited. — Ed.] 



The following notice, dated Sihor, 17th January, was recorded in hopes 



of eliciting further observations of the same phenomenon. 



At Bersia, Lat. 23° 38'. Long. 77° 30', on January 11th, at 6h 00m, a meteor 

 appeared near £ Audromedce, and not far from the Zenith ; it went down to the 

 westward, occupying 2 or 3 seconds in its flight, and inoliuing a little to the left ; 

 at about 30° of altitude it burst into a globe of light little inferior to the sun in 

 size and brightness ; and then disappeared, leaving behind a long train of smoke 

 which continued visible for many minutes, like a thin cloud enlightened by the 

 sun's rays ; at about 6h 5m a faint rumbling sound was heard like the distant 

 discharge of artillery. The appearance was nearly the same at Sihor, though 

 distant 3b' miles S. S. W. 



Should this meteor have been noticed at Mhow or Ajmlr, the place over which 

 it burst may be determined, and probably a meteoric stone discovered. — W. S. J. 



