1864.] ; Proceedings of tie Asiatic Society. 485 



Philol. Committee.— H. C. Sutherland, Esq. ; Nat. Hist. Committee 

 Baboo Debendro Mulliek ; Statistical Committee— C. B. Garrett, Esq* 



They also reported that they had added a Durwan and a Ferash to 

 the establishment of the Museum. 



Communications were received — 



1. From the Ven'ble J. H. Pratt, a letter on his paper entitled 

 " on the degree of uncertainty which local attraction, if not allowed 

 for, occasions in the map of a country, and in the mean figure of the 

 earth as determined by Geodesy ; a method of obtaining the mean 

 figure free from ambiguity by a comparison of the Anglo-Gallic, 

 Bussian, and Indian Arcs ; and speculations on the constitution of 

 the earth's crust." 



2. From Baboo Gopeenath Sen, an abstract of the hourly Meteoro- 

 logical Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in June 

 last. 



3. From H. B. Medlicott, Esq., a note relating to the Sivalik Fauna. 



4. From Lieutenant Colonel E. T, Dalton, notes during a tour in 

 1863-64 in the Tributary Mehals, under the Commissioner of Chota- 

 Nagpore, Bonai, Gangpore, Odeypore and Sirgooja. 



5. From the Bev. F. Mason through Colonel Phayre, answers to 

 the " queries for travellers" embracing Beligion, Mythology and 

 Astronomy among the Karens, with a vocabulary of eight dialects. 



Mr. H. B. Medlicott read a notice referring to his description of 

 the Sub-Himalayan rocks in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey 

 of India, Vol. III. p. II. The deep unconformability between the 

 upper and middle groups of those tertiary deposits had led him to 

 question a statement that fossils had been found in the older groups, 

 of the same kind as those in the true Sivalik beds. Sir Proby Cautley 

 sets at rest the fact of fossils being found in the inner Zone ; and re- 

 affirms his opinion that they are the same as some of those from the 

 Sivaliks. The inference, therefore, becomes very strong, that in the 

 Fauna Sivalensis two separable stages have been confounded : the deep 

 unconformability along the inner boundary suggests a far greater 

 separation than could be surmised from the mere fact of succession as 

 apparent in the outer section. As Colonel Cautley's collections from 

 those special localities have been lost, the question must wait for 

 fresh data. 



Mr. Blanford made some observations on this paper. 



