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drawn up by Officiating Inspector General of Hospitals J. McClel- 

 land, on the climate and soils of the three Presidencies as affectin" 



o 



the sanitary condition of European troops in India. 



2. From Lord H. Ulick Browne, Secretary to the Government of 

 India, Foreign Department, a copy of the Meteorological observations 

 made by Assistant Surgeon Welsh at Muscat during the month of 

 June last. 



3. From Baboo Padhanath Sickdar an abstract of meteorolooical 

 observations taken at the Surveyor General's office for the month of 

 January last. 



4. From Mr. H. Cope, Umritsur, the following accounts of the 

 Aerolite which fell at Dhurmsala on Saturday the 14th July last, 

 accompanied by a specimen. 



Umritsur, 28t7i July, 1860. 



The Secretary to the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 



Sib, — About two p. m. on Saturday the 14th of July, a tremendous 

 mid-air explosion was heard at Dhurmsala, Kangra, Dalhousie, 

 Madhoopoor and Goordaspoor. The vapour or smoke following the 

 explosion was distinctly seen at Dalhousie about 30 miles, and at 

 Kangra 10 miles from Dhurmsala, where the explosion, said to have 

 resembled the discharge of an 84 pounder, was followed by the de- 

 scent in various parts of the station, some two miles apart, of large 

 masses of aerolite. One piece that fell near the Dhurmsala Police 

 Battalion Lines, was ascertained to have been when entire, one foot in 

 diameter, but it was broken into several fragments. Mr. P. Saunders, 

 C. S., Deputy Commissioner of Kangra, has forwarded to me a portion, 

 with a desire that I should do my best to have it analyzed. It strikes 

 me I cannot do better than forward it to the Asiatic Society. A 

 small part can be taken off for analysis, and the remainder be preserved 

 in your Museum. 



I remain, &c, 



He]s t et Cope. 

 Umritsur, lOtli September, 1860. 

 My dear Sib, 



I have the pleasure to send you an extract from a letter 

 received from Kangra, which is about 11 miles from Dhurmsala and 

 about 1000 feet lower than the spot on which the main mass of the 

 aerolite fell. 



