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hills, leads to the conclusion that the Saurian stone is not a rock 

 " in situ," ut evidently a loose block washed down from a position 

 perhaps higher up the stream, perhaps from the base of the hil^s in 

 the vicinity. The dip of the river stones is so various that all those 

 at present visible have evidently fallen from above, and are, in all 

 probability, of a recent displacement. The character of the rocks in 

 the immediate vicinity may be described as trap overlying sandstone, 

 the latter very hard, and with heads dipping 3° or 4° to the north. 



Trusting that this information may be a sufficient answer to your 

 demi-official communication previously quoted. 



I have the honor, &c, 

 (Sd.) C. A. Sim, Lieutenant, 



Boyal Engineers. 

 (True Copy) 



(Sd.) H. Eivett Caen ac, 

 Assistant- Secretary, Central Provinces. 

 The Secretary read the following correspondence that had passed, 

 between the Society and the Government of India on the subject of 

 the proposed transfer of their Museum to Government. 



From the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, To E. C. Bay- 

 ley, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department. 

 Asiatic Society's Booms, Calcutta, 5th April, 1864. 

 Sie, — With reference to the previous correspondence on the pro- 

 posed transfer of the Asiatic Society's collections to Government, 

 printed copies of which are hereto appended, I am instructed to 

 inform you that the Council has now received full powers from the 

 Society to enter upon final arrangements with Government on the 

 basis recognised in your letter ~No. 7622 of the 5th December, 1863. 



It is deemed highly desirable by the Council that these arrange- 

 ments should be entered upon with the least practicable delay, inasmuch, 

 as pending the result of the present correspondence, the Council has 

 deferred the appointment of a properly qualified Curator, in succession 

 to their late Curator, Mr. Blyth, and the collections although as far 

 as possible cared for in all that regards their preservation and display, 

 and continually increased by donation and purchase as heretofore, 

 are not rendered subservient to the extension of scientific knowledge 

 in the same degree that they would be under a skilled Zoologist. 

 In accordance with the provision of Rules I. and III. as submitted 



