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yesterday, the weather continues fine. There is nothing new to communicate, 

 excepting that I hear the Baron is coming the Jammu road, and cannot he far off 

 now. I must be at Bombay by the middle of January." 



Of the inscriptions alluded to in the last extract, one at least is in clear Tibetan 

 characters, and will be doubtless easily decyphered by M. Csoma de Koros, to 

 whom they will be sent at Malda. 



The Baron Hugel had deviated from his proposed tour after ascending the 

 pass from Bundurpur to Iskardo into little Tibet, on account of the advanced 

 season ; he had since joined M. Vigne at Labor. 



The Rev. Mr. Bateman, in a letter from Bombay, communicated a fac- 

 simile of an inscription, supposed to be in Cufic characters, found by Cap- 

 tain Thomas Jervis, at the village of Wara, in the Southern Konkan ; the 

 original stone of which he had presented to the Bombay Literary Society. 



The inscription is apparently ia the elongated form of Nagari character, found 

 on the coins of the Saurashtra group. (See Journal, vol. iv. PL XLIX. p. 684,) 

 and may in time be made out. 



Mr. Traill, Commissioner of Kemaon, presented further facsimiles of 

 the inscriptions at Bageswar, near Almorah, which were made over to the 

 Rev. Dr. Mill, V. P. for examination. 



Read an extract of a private letter from Lieut. A. Cunningham, 

 Engineers. 



Lieut. C. pointed out, in reference to the motto APAOXPO on one of General 

 Ventura's coins (fig. 9 of PI. XXXVIII. vol. iv.) that the same name might 

 be traced on the coin depicted as fig. 6, PI. I. vol.xvii. of the Researches, of which he 

 possessed a more legible duplicate : thus forming the most perfect link between 

 the Indo-Scythic and Canouj coins. The cornucopia is borne by both the stand- 

 ing and sitting females of this type. 



An anonymous address " to the Members of the Asiatic Society," 

 signed " Veritas," Hobart Town, Vandieman's Land, September, 1835, 

 developed a new theory of the origin of the Yugas of the Hindus, and 

 called upon the Society to examine the subject more closely. 



Whatever may be thought of the address, which from its want of authentica- 

 tion cannot be noticed, it is satisfactory to find the Society's Researches made 

 the subject of study in the new colony. 



Physical. 



Lieut.-Col. Colvin presented on the part of Lieutenants Baker and 

 Durand, three fossils from the Dadupur collection, of great interest. 



1. Part of the jaw of a rhinoceros, with two milch teeth attached. 



2. The molar tooth of a camel ; of which new fossil genus, they possess now 

 the entire head. (See Journal for December, 1835.) 



3. A very distinct head of a fish. 



To these Colonel Colvin added, on his own part, four fragments of the 

 fossil shell of a tortoise, of gigantic dimensions. 



The same officer presented on the part of Lieutenant Baker, a series 

 of the fossil shells from the stratum of blue mail, underlying hard sand, 

 gravel, and yellow sand, inclined at an angle of 45° in the low range of 

 hills at the head of the Delhi Canal. A sketch of the strata accompanied. 



A note from Mr. B. H. Hodgson called the Society's attention to a paper 



