50 Prof. Maskclync and Dr. Lang's Miner alogical Notes. 



6. The Fall of Butsura, May 12, 1861. 

 The group of aerolites that fell on May 12, 1861, on the banks 

 of the Gunduk, forty-two miles north-east of Goruckpur, pre- 

 sents features of a general interest that claim for it a prominent 

 place among those to be described in these Notices. Five pieces 

 of that group were sent to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, at 

 Calcutta; and they have been thence forwarded to London, 

 where they were exhibited during the period of the International 

 Exhibition, at the British Museum. They have since been cut, 

 in directions agreed upon by Mr. Oldham on the part of the 

 Asiatic Society, and in accordance with a liberal and patriotic 

 resolution of the Society to share with the National Museum in 

 London their valuable acquisitions in Indian aerolites. These 

 five stones fell at four distinct places south-west of the main 

 stream of the Gunduk, near the village of Mudbuni and on the 

 opposite side of the river to Butsura, which, as being the nearest 

 place indicated on the Royal Atlas of Johnston, is perhaps the 

 best to give its name to the fall (see Map). The four spots 



where the aerolite fell are marked with a cross on the map, 

 and form the angles of an irregular four-sided figure, one 

 side of which runs nearly north-west and south-east, taking 

 a direction parallel to the general course of this part of the 

 Gunduk. The northern angle is very near to, and rather to 



