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quate notice of so indefatigable a man and so complete a scholar. 

 It is intended only to preface the Resolution which 1 hold in 

 my hand, and to which I am going to ask the assent of this Meeting. 



Communications were received — 



From J. Obbard, Esq., a paper on the " Translation of waves of 

 water with relation to the great flood of the Indus in 1858." 



2. Prom T. Oldham, Esq., extracts of letters from J. L. Stewart, 

 Esq., M. D., 11th Punjaub Infantry employed with the expedition 

 to the Wuzeeree country : — 



" I generally pick up a bit of stone here and there, but as I have 

 made no arrangements for the carriage of such heavy goods, I am 

 obliged to be contented with very ' wee bits' which I suspect would 

 be much too minute to be of use to you. Next time, if I have 

 another chance, I purpose making better arrangements in this re- 

 spect. Near where we have been encamped recently, blocks big and 

 little were abundant (I nowhere have seen it in strata or in situ) of 

 a calcareous rock crammed with corals, echinide mata (?) and shells of 

 various species, some not uncommon, but I have not seen a trace of 

 vegetables or of higher animals. This doubtless partly depends on 

 my want of practice. Almost all these are, however, too bulky for 

 my means of stowage. 



" The expedition started from Tak (to the N. W. of Dera 

 Ismael Khan) and hitherto we have been advancing up the bed of a 

 small stream called the Zam. We have only come 21 miles from 

 Tak, but will go on to the central city of the Wuzeerees (Kanee- 

 gorm) some 25 miles apparently, to the west, on a mountain which 

 ought to be near the watershed of what here represents the ' ; Sub- 

 man" range. The mountain has been calculated from a distance as 

 upwards of 11,000 feet, but as yet although we rise very consider- 

 ably with the slope of the bed of the Zam, we have gained no great 

 elevation. The stream cuts through the ridges crossing them, and 

 gives numerous sections, as do the innumerable ravines and gullies. 



" For the first ten to twelve miles from the plains the rocks were 

 all soft standstones and conglomerates alternating, at first dipping 

 to the west mostly at a low angle, and presenting a steep escarpment 

 towards the plains of Tak on the east, latterly dipping to the east 

 and contorted variously at varying angles. We then came on cal- 



