1835.] Asiatic Society. . 651 



Meteorological Register for October, 1835 — by the Surveyor General. 

 Dtjmoulin's Gulistan, 1807, and Karab-ud-din, a Medical work, MS. were 

 presented — by Professor H. H. Wilson. 



The following books received from the booksellers : 

 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia — Germanic Empire, vol. 3rd. 

 Ditto ditto — Greece, vol. 1st. 



Literary and Antiquities. 

 Read a letter from W. H. Wathen, Esq. forwarding a memoir on 

 Chinese Tartary and Khoten. 



[This will be published in our next.] 

 The Hon'ble Lieut.-Col. Morrison, presented, on the part of the Author, 

 a paper on the State of Arts of the Cotton Spinning, Printing, and Dyeing 

 in Nepal, by Dr. A. Campbell; with specimens. 



Read a letter from Capt. T. J. Taylor, forwarding extract from a 

 Journal of the late Major Ward, of the Madras European Regiment, 

 regarding the inhabitants of the Varshagiri mountains in the Peninsula. 



Read a letter from Lieut. H. Abbott, Mhow, forwarding an essay 

 upon Comets, containing a new theory of the phenomena of the coma. 



Read a letter from G. W. Traill, Esq. forwarding copy of an inscrip- 

 tion in the nail-headed form of Sanscrit in Kemaon. 



Read extracts of a letter from Dr. Benza, on the subject of some 

 ancient coins dug up in a ( cairn' on the Nilgiris. 



From Lieut. A. Cunningham, at Benares, were received several very 

 beautifully sculptured small Buddha images, discovered in the excavations 

 at Sdrniith ; also copies of various inscriptions, and impressions of coins. 



Physical. 

 The Secretary announced the arrival of six chests of fossil bones from 

 the sub. Himalayas, forming the first dispatch of Colonel J. Colvin's 

 munificent donation promised on the 14th January, 1835. (see page 56.) 

 In this collection, which Colonel Colvin's letter describes as containing the 

 fossils in their rough matrix, as thtfy were brought down by the native workmen 

 employed iu their excavation, a cursory inspection shewed several very large and 

 complete jaws of the elephant, mastodon, hippopotamus, crocodile, and of other 

 animals not immediately recognized. Col. Colvin's letter of the 4th October, 

 intimated the further dispatch of seven chests of fossils, more carefully selected 

 and classified, of which a full catalogue has been furnished by the indefatigable 

 collectors at Dadupur. 



[We postpone our account of the whole until the second dispatch arrives.] 

 Specimens of a crustaceous animal taken from the Greenland Whale, 

 presented by Mr. Stephenson, with an explanatory note. 

 A specimen of Lophophorus Impeyanus, by Mr. C. W. Smith. 

 A collection of bones of various mammalia, by Mr. J. T. Pearson. 

 Specimens of the soil and strata of the bed of the Samar lake, and of the 

 salt in its different stages of formation, were presented by Capt. A. Conol- 

 ly, Assistant Resident Jaipur. 



A note of their chemical analysis by Mr. Stephenson, and the Secretary,, 

 was at the same time submitted. 



