1835.] Asiatic Society. 183 



Mr. H. Piddington presented a copy of the Transactions of the Geo- 

 logical Society of Pennsylvania, for August, 1834. 



Meteorological Registers, for Jan. and Feb. 1835 — by the Surveyor 

 General. 



From the Book-sellers. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Swainson's Natural History. 



Museum and Antiquities. 

 Read a letter from Mr. W. Dawes, of the Delhi Canal Establishment, 

 forwarding at the request of Lieut. Kittoe, a drawing of an image found 

 about 10 years ago near the Herrod Ghat, on the western branch of the 

 Jumna, and offering, if desired, to send the image itself to the museum. 

 Resolved, that the offer be accepted with thanks. 



A notice by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. of an inscription in Tibetan and 

 Lantsa (correctly Ranza) characters, on a temple on the confines of Tibet, 

 was submitted. 



[This will be printed in the next number of the Journal.] 

 Physical. 

 The President brought to the notice of the Society Dr. Pearson's sug- 

 gestion regarding the Curatorship. He had conversed with the Baron 

 Hugel (who was present at the Meeting) on the subject of procuring a 

 competent person from Europe, and was assured that a salary of 150 or 

 200 rupees per mensem would be ample. The funds were in a state to war- 

 rant the measure. He therefore proposed, and it was resolved, that a Spe- 

 cial Committee, consisting of the Honorable Col. Morrison, Mr. W. H. 

 Macnaghten, Dr. Pearson, with the President and Secretary, be formed 

 for the purpose of carrying the measure into effect, limiting the vote of 

 salary to 200 rupees, and empowering the Committee to arrange other 

 incidental expences with reference to the present means of the Society. 



Read a letter from Serjeant Dean, dated Delhi, the 20th March, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of the remittance of Rupees 100, on account of the 

 expences incurred by him in transmitting fossil bones and other specimens, 

 and announcing further contributions from himself and friends. 



A letter from Lieut. N. Vicary, forwarding a small box of fossil bones 

 from Julalpur, on the banks of the Betwa river; also some fossils of the 

 Alligator, from between Chunar and Mirzapur on the Ganges ; and a 

 specimen of limestone from Landour, with impressions or erosions by water 

 similar to those alluded to by Dr. McClelland. 



Some of the bones from the Betwa, the metacarpus and femur of an ox, were 

 lined with beautiful crystals of dog-tooth spar, which was also remarked lining the 

 cavities of the kankar conglomerate forming the matrix in which they were im- 

 bedded. 



Mr. Benson, who was acquainted with this fossil site, stated his opinion that 

 they were of modern fossilization, being found abundantly in the bed of the 

 Betwa river. 



Mr. H. B. Benson exhibited to the members present, the collection of 

 shells made by him on his recent return to India, comprising many new 

 genera and species. 



[Notices of this collection will be given in the Journal.] 



