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Museum and Physical. 

 The Secretary announced that he had heen requested by Lieut—Colonel 

 Burney to beg the Society's acceptance of the collection of fossil bones 

 from Ava, exhibited at the meeting of the 6th August, 1831. 



The best thanks of the Society were voted for this splendid and costly 

 present. 



A note was read from Mr. J. H. Stocqueler, presenting for the Museum 

 a spear, knife, and mallei;, used by the nations of King George's Sound. 



These very primitive implements are made by cementing sharp splinters of 

 flint upon the side or end of a stick with a kind of tough pitch. The mallet, 

 formed of two rounded stones attached in the same manner, is used for indenting 

 the gum tree, up which the aborigines climb in search of the opossum, and also 

 for killing the animal: — the pointed end of the knife for skinning him. 



Three specimens of the navicella tessellata (Lamarck), found adhering to 

 piles in the Hugli river, Fort William, were presented by W. H. Ben- 

 son, Esq. 



Read, extracts of a letter from Lieut. Wm. Foley, dated 6th January, 

 forwarding some specimens of Sulphuret of Antimony, occurring in vast 

 quantities in a hill near Moulmein. 



Extracts of various letters from Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer, 

 describing the progress of their explorations in the Siwalik hills. 



The rhinoceros, hitherto a desideratum in their fossil cabinet, had at length 

 been recognized by seven veritable molar teeth. The Museum at Seharaupur is 

 now so richly stored with subjects, that it will be better to await a full account 

 of it from the meritorious founders of it themselves, than to publish the detached 

 notices we have hitherto ventured to glean from their private correspondence : 

 but we could not refrain from announcing to the world the rapid progress made 

 at the onset, in this remote theatre of discovery. 



Some vegetable stalactitic kankar and fossil shells of the Gawelgiri hills 

 were presented with notes by Dr. Malcolmson of Madras. 

 Antiquities and Papers Communicated. 



A letter from Dr. G. E. Rankin, dated Riewara 7th February, 1835, 

 was read, forwarding a facsimile of an inscription from the ruins of a Hin- 

 du temple on the hill of Harsh in Shekawati, about 40 miles north of Sam- 

 bhur, and seven or eight south of Seekur. 



A letter from Lieut. Newboud, communicating a Memoir on the History 

 and Government of Naning. 



Also a sketch of the four Menang Cabowe States in the interior of the 

 Malayan Peninsula, by the same author. 



The following valuable papers and documents were submitted and pre- 

 sented by Lieut.-Colonel H. Burney, resident in Ava. 



A chronological account of the kings of Siam, obtained from the right- 

 ful heir to the Siamese throne, now residing as a druggist at Ava. 



Translation of an epitome of the kings of Prome, Pagan, and Ava, 

 drawn up by order of the king of Ava for Colonel Burney. 



Translation of the official registers of the population of the Burmese 

 Empire made in 1783, and revised under the present king in 1826. 



