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11. Ooghan-Okua, used for husking grain. 



12. Ronti, used for making Chaul (rice) from Dhan, and for pounding bricks. 



13. Chou Rummu, bhangy. 



14. Plough, used by Parbuttiahs. 



15. Keka, used to separate seeds from the cotton. 



16. Yeau, spinning wheel. 



17. Weaver's loom. 



18. Rool, carpenter's adze. 



19. Phoho, used as a saw. 



20. Daha, carpenter's chisel. 



21. Lamp. 



22. Tulip. 



23. Specimen of Gapgy upland rice. 



24. Ditto of rice in the valley of Nipal. 



25. Ditto of variety of rice called Malsi. 



26. Two specimens of mustard seeds. 



27. Specimen of pea stalactite. 



28. Ditto of Nipal soap. 



29. Two pen cases and inkstands. 



30. Two inkstands. 



31. Two Buddhas. 



32. Nipal sword. 



33. Ditto ditto. 



Also the following Nipalese Musical Instruments: 



1. Phonga, (trumpet,) Newari. 



2. Mohalli, (flageolet,) ditto. 



3. Singha, (horn,) Nipal. 



4. Nug Pheni, or Turi, Parbattiah. 



5. Bansuli, (flute or fife.) 



6. Belt or Krishna Belt, Newari flute. 



Also, several specimens of Cotton and Woollen cloth manufactured at 

 Nipal, Tibet, and Bhoote, marked from No. 18 to 23. 



Physical. 



The Secretary presented, in the name of Mr. W. Cracropt, a very fine 

 collection of the fossil impressions of vegetables and fossil woods in the 

 coal and shale of Newcastle in New South Wales, just received from that 

 place, along with a number of geological specimens and many rare shells, 

 encrinite, &c. 



Mr. C. Betts presented a piece of fossil wood from the sandstone above 

 the coal beds of Burdwan ; to which the natives give the name of Asurhdr, 

 or " giant's bone." 



Three specimens of soil, and five of minerals, of Nipal, and a collection 

 of skins of birds, presented by Dr. A. Campbell of Nipal. 



A stuffed Albatross, presented by J. Chtlo, Esq. H. C. Pilot Service. 



A specimen of Eurinorynchus Griseus, or Pigmy Spoonbill, presented 

 by Newcombe, Esq. 



This bird is one of the rarest in the world ; but a single specimen having been 

 found before : the Curator was requested to draw a description of it for publica- 

 tion. 



A specimen of Remora, presented by C. W. Smith, Esq. 



A note on the Cheer other ium, one of the new pachydermatous genera, 

 discovered in the Sivalik range, by Messrs. Falconer and Cautley, was 

 read. 



The letter accompanying it notices the discovery also of the remains of birds, 

 in the same rich fossil field. 



