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spades in playing cards. It has unfortunately been mislaid. The 
specimen No. 2, found this morning on the top of Ross Island, where 
no flint has yet been found, appears either very much weathered or 
to be altered by fire. All the Andamanese arrows seen during the 
last two years were either tipped with longish spikes, consisting of 
nails, convicts’ anklets, beaten-out pieces of saws, stolen from us, or 
they have had a long point of hard wood. I do not remember to 
have seen any mention of flint implements among the Andamanese 
before ; we must conclude, therefore, that if the specimens now sent 
were really used for the purpose I suppose, then they belong to an 
age when iron derived from the wrecks of ships was not to be had 
around these Islands. 
Your’s truly, 
(Sd.) J.C. Haveutoy. 
To the Secretary, Asiatic Society. 
3. From Mr. A. Grote, on the part of Colonel Tytler, a Python 
from the Nicobar Islands, believed to be a new species, and two 
species of Herodias froin Port Blair, also believed to be different from 
the Bengal species. 
4. From Lieutenant-Colonel James, skin and skeleton of a 
Khatass (Viverra Zibetha). 
5. From Baboo Rajendra Mallika, skin and skeleton of a Snow 
Bear. 
6. From Mr. H. F. Blanford, an extra copy of his paper on the 
“Specific Identity of the Described Forms of Tanalia,” published in 
the 23rd Vol. of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 
7. From the Madras Central Museum, a collection of Natural 
History specimens chiefly consisting of fish. 
8. From Baboo Prankissen Shaw, skin and skeleton of a Para- 
doxurus Musanga. 
The following letter from Lieutenant-Colonel S. R. Tickell, an- 
nouncing the dispatch of two stone shot, and enclosing list of the 
kings of Arakan, was read. 
Akyab, May 14th, 1863. 
My par Grore,—Will you kindly present to the Society the 
accompanying two stone round shot. ‘hey were dug up out of the 
ramparts of the Old Fort of Arakan, by Captain Hamilton, our 
