1863.) Proceedings of the Asiatie Society. 443 
Having devoted some months to the determination and arrangement 
of the Society’s fossil collection, I have much satisfaction in being able 
to add to that collection a series, a considerable number of which being 
the authentic determinations of two of the first paleontologists of 
Europe, Dr. Dunker, and M. Pictet, will, I believe, afford useful ob- 
jects of reference to those who work at paleontology. 
“As a valuable and extensive collection of fossils arranged in strati- 
graphic or geological order has been already formed by Dr. Oldham, 
i have arranged the fossils of the Society im natural history order, 
so as to form an integral, as they are an essential, part of a zoological 
museum, That such a collection is absolutely essential to the working 
naturalist and paleontologist I can affirm, not only from my own 
limited experience, but also from that of my late teacher, Edward 
Forbes, and I believe of paleontologists in general. 
“The arrangement is that adopted in the British Museum collection ; 
that of the Geological Museum of Jermyn Street being followed in the 
Survey Museum of Hasting’s Street, in accordance with the require- 
ments of field geologists. 
“It is with the view mainly of aiding in the formation of a zoologi- 
cally arranged series of fossils that I have the pleasure of offering the 
present collection to the Society ; and it is with a view, so far as in 
me lies, to ensure the perpetuation of such a collection when the 
Society’s museum becomes the property of Government, that I request 
that, should such a collection not be retained in the new museum, 
the present collection be then presented to the Presidency College. 
“To avoid misapprehension I would say that the retention in the 
new museum of a zoologically arranged series of fossils, of which the 
present and all future donations of mine shall form part, is the sole 
condition I attach to the gift. 
“Whether such a collection pass into the geological or zoological 
section of the new museum, I consider to be matter of secondary im- 
portance. 
“T trust meanwhile that the Society may receive such additions 
to its fossil collection from other members of the Society as may 
render it a worthy representation of fossil zoology. 
“JT remain, &e., &c., 
(Sd.) “H. FE. Buanrorp.” 
