1841.] Report of the Curator. 415 



The return of oil from a naree of safflower seeds, if good, is 1 or 1 1 seer 

 but sometimes they yield nothing. The price of seed is 1 R. 11 As. per 

 mun and oil 20 Rs. per mun. 



There is no demand in the town for cocoa-nut oil. The nuts are nets 

 to the press across the desert from Jeysulmeer chiefly by the Rajah of 

 that principality and are worth 18 Rs. the mun. If good, they yield half 

 their weight of oil ; the average return is one-third or a half. 



(To be continued.) 



Report of the Curator (Henry Piddington Esq.) of the 

 Society's Museum for May. 



For llie month of May, I have to report as follows : — 



Geological, Miner ological, and Palcontological Departments. 

 — We continue to catalogue and arrange in these depart- 

 ments. I have been able, by the kindness of Mr. Prinsep, 

 to recover three more of Dr. Voysey's note books amongst the 

 papers of Mr. J. Prinsep, making in all 5 books of notes, from 

 which I trust we shall be able to extract much valuable inform- 

 ation relative to our collections ; and it is only thus, by collect- 

 ing slowly, putting together piece by piece, and collecting all 

 with the series of specimens, that we shall be able to establish 

 any thing like order, I regret deeply to state that I can obtain 

 no trace of Captain Herbert's catalogue of his Himalaya spe- 

 cimens. 



Ornithological and Mammalogical, 8fC — Nothing new. 



Osteological. — We have been able to acquire here two 

 Samurs and a Neelghye for the trifling sum of 78 Es. ; both 

 are desiderate in our collection. The Neelghye is killed for 

 the purpose of obtaining its skeleton. 



Botanical. — I have been fortunate enough to discover a box 

 of Himalaya mosses, sent down from Simla in 1838, by Mrs. 

 Siddons. Upon testing these, I find that, of 18 sorts, at least 

 a dozen give very fine, and some of them brilliant colours 

 (crimsons and crimson browns), so that they are thus of them- 

 selves of much promise as dying lichens ; and will I hope give 



