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green prase, much prized by the Chinese, and called by them Yu ; it is 

 found about 80 miles N. W. of Mogaung. Wrist rings are cut from it. 



With the specimens was a substance called by the Burmese earth wax, which 

 they say exudes from some high precipitous rocks above Ava. They add, that 

 monkeys are particularly fond of this substance, and that those animals swarm 

 about the rocks which yield it. The wax has all the appearance of common 

 unbleached wax. 



There was also a specimen of the tea prepared by the Singphos of Payen- 

 dwen ; and a poisonous plant used by the Mishmis, supposed by Dr. Wallich 

 to be identical with the Bish of the Gurkhas, (Aconitum ;) another herb myen- 

 the", used by the Mishmis for the same purpose, had more the appearance of an 

 Acanthaceous plant. 



The fossil bones from Perim in the Cambay Gulph, presented by the 

 Baron Hugel, had arrived. Among them is a large and indisputable frag- 

 ment of a buffalo's horn, which the Baron refers with probability to the 

 Nerbudda fossil bos ; two smaller horns imbedded in matrix, (a calcare- 

 ous and ferruginous conglomerate.) Also shells from a similar conglo- 

 merate in Gogo, and specimens of the cornelian, natural and burned, 

 from the Ratanpur quarries. 



A geological series from Fulos Floer, Trotto, Ledah, Tingy, Pigeon 

 Island, Birdnest Island, and Dehli point, in the Straits of Malacca, was 

 presented by Dr. Bland, of H. M. 8. Wolf, with a note of their locality, 

 and some remarks on the genus of shells denominated Pterocyclos by 

 Benson ( Spiraculum by Pearson), found in abundance on the islet of 

 Susson, opposite Queda Peak. 



[Dr. Bland's notes shall have early insertion.] 



Specimens of a calcareous and silicious Scoria, forming the substance of 

 a small hill at Budiguntn near Courtney, about 1 1 miles west of Bellary, 

 was presented by Lieut. Newbold. 



[The accompanying note will be inserted.] 



Mr. C. W. Smith having purchased a collection of specimens of Natu- 

 ral History from the Eastern Isles, presented the Mammalia, the dupli- 

 cates of the Birds and the Reptiles, to the Museum, on condition of the 

 remaining birds being mounted for him. The Mammalia and Reptiles 

 consist of the following specimens: — The grey Roussette, (Pteropus Gri- 

 $eus) two specimens ; one of a species of Noctilionina, and one of Ves- 

 pertilionina } probably new genera ; one of a species of Marten, agreeing 

 in specific characters very exactly with the Pine Marten, ( Martes Vul- 

 garis ; ) two young specimens of a species of Ictus ; one of the Barang 

 Otter, (Lutra Lutreola ?J one of the slender Delundung, ( Prionodon 

 Gracilis ; ) one of the Sumatra Cat, (Felis Sumatrana ; ) one of the Ma- 

 dagascar Squirrel, (Sciurus Madagascariensis ; ) one of the Jeralang, 

 (Sciurus Leschenaultii ;) two of the two-banded Squirrel, (S. Bivitta- 

 tus ;J and two specimens of the Java Musk Deer, (Moschus Javanicus.) 

 The Reptiles are a specimen of the Eastern Box Terrapia, (Cistuda Am- 

 boinensis ; ) and one of the Clouded Monitor of Gray's Synopsis, (Moni- 

 tor Nebulosus.J 



A specimen of Bengal Vulture, (Vultur Bengalensis,) presented By 

 Major Fane. 



