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Museum. 

 A variety of bows, arrows, and other weapons from Chota Nagpore, 

 Singhbhum, and the Jungle Mehals, were presented by Lieut. G. W. 

 Hamilton, 34th Regt. N. I. 



Prepared skeleton of the hood of a Cobra de Capello Snake, presented 

 by Colonel L. R. Stacy. 



Literary^. 



Read a letter from Lieut. G. W. Hamilton, 31th Regt. N. I., forward- 

 ing two manuscript volumes of a poetical translation of part of the Shah 

 Nameh of Firdausi, by the late Francis Gold, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, 

 34th Regt. N. I. 



Physical 



A memoir, with drawings, of the Sivatherium Gtganteum, a new fossil ru- 

 minant genus from the valley of the Markanda, by Dr. Falconer and 

 Captain P. J. Cautley, was read. 



Also, a notice of the fossil Crocodile of the Sewalik Hills, by Captain 

 Cautley. 



Minerals from the neighbourhood of Kabul were forwarded by Syed 

 Kera'mat A li, for presentation ; also a large supply of flower and fruit seeds 

 and medicinal drugs, from the same place, and a further collection of 

 Bactrian coins for inspection. 



The seeds were directed to be transmitted to the H. C. Botanical Garden, 

 with a request that they might be examined, and bestowed to the best advantage. 

 The medical drugs, in like manner, to be transferred to the Medical Society. 



The collection of Coins, consisting of about 750 pieces, 11 gold, 72 silver, 

 and the rest copper, possesses one silver Euthydemus ; one ditto Antilakides, 

 (new ;) two ditto Menanders ; one ditto Lysius, (new ;) a fine gold Kadphises. 

 The remainder are of the Tndo-Scythic, Sassanian, and Khalif dynasties. 



The minerals collected by the praiseworthy and intelligent Syed are some 

 from the neighbourhood of Kabul, and others from Demavend, &c. in Persia. 

 Among others, a fine green talcose sectile steatite or agalmatolite from Kabul, 

 native sulphur, gypsum, specular iron in large laminae, &c. 



A letter from Captain Conolly, accompanying the despatch, states that 

 Kera'mat Ali has collected a large store of statistical information during his 

 stay at Kabul while agent for the British Government, which it is his intention 

 to put together for publication in Persian. 



At the conclusion of the business of the evening, the Secretary exhibit- 

 ed a very powerful electro-magnet, lately received from London, which 

 produced a brilliant spark, decomposed water freely, imparted a consider- 

 able galvanic shock to the human body, and lighted a spirit lamp. 



XI. — Extracts from Correspondence. 



1. — Semimenstrual Inequality of the Tides. 



[We hasten to publish the following letter from the Rev. W. Whewell, of 

 Cambridge, in correction of a quotation from the learned Professor's Essay on 

 Cotidal Lines in our editorial notice of Mr. Sinclair's tables of the Calcutta 

 tides, in the third volume of the Journal, p. 408. We regret that the period 

 fixed for the contemporaneous observations on the shores of England should have 

 passed : but we once more repeat a request to our friends on the coast to fur- 

 nish the information now called for. — Ed.] 



" In the number of your Journal for August, 1833, is given a table of the times 

 of high water at the principal places between Calcutta and Point Pulmiras, by 

 Mr. P. A. Sinclair : an addition to our previous materials for a map of 

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