68 Asiatic Society. [No. 109. 



Read the following letter of 24th March last from Mr. Secretary Bush by : — 



No. 433. ' To H. Torrens, Esq. 



' Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 ' General Department. 

 1 Sir, 



' I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and its enclosure of the 8th 

 instant, and to acquaint you for the information of the Asiatic Society, that the Report 

 of the Officiating Curator of the Society's Museum on the Specimens Drought out 

 hy Capt. Tremenheere, and deposited with the Society for the basis of a Museum of 

 Economic Geology, will be transmitted to the Hon'ble the Court of Directors by the 

 next Overland Mail. 



' 2d. I am desired to take this opportunity for forwarding to the Asiatic Society the 

 accompanying three specimens of rock from the head of the Pass at the Gurrah Ghat, 

 near Mhow, on the Bombay and Agra road, together with a copy of the letter from 

 Captain J. H. Smyth, Officiating Superintendent of the Road, transmitting the speci- 

 mens to the Military Board. 



' 3d. In respect to the Society's Museum of Economic Geology, the contributions 

 will be obtained gradually by such aids as the Hon'ble the Court of Directors may be 

 enabled to procure, or be pleased to sanction, and by the assistance of private indivi- 

 duals interested in this department of practical science, and by donation or inter- 

 changes with other Societies. 



' 4th. The influence and correspondence of the Asiatic Society will progressively ac- 

 complish these objects. 



' 5th. The Military Board will be instructed to direct the attention of the executive 

 Officers of public works and roads, to the purposes of the institution of a Museum of 

 Economic Geology, and to cause collections to be made of specimens, and descriptive 

 lists to be sent to them, from which in communication with the Curator of the Society, 

 the valuable and useful parts will be selected for transmission to the Museum at the 

 least possible expence, and in most cases it is hoped, by a proper arrangement, without 

 any charge in excess of the ordinary carriage that would be employed for other 

 public uses. 



' Fort William, ' I have the honor to be, 



'24th March, 1841. 'Sir, 



' Your most obedient Servant, 



' G. A. Bushby, 

 ' Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



' No. 143. ' To Major De Bude, 



1 Secretary to the Military Board, Fort William. 

 ' Sir, 



' You will receive by Dak banghy, three specimens of the soil at the head of the Pass 

 at Ghurra Ghat, forwarded to me by Captain Kellner, superintending the road from 





