1841.] Asiatic Society. 593 



Read a report from the Officiating Curator, of the 1st April 1841, on the Cabinet of Coins belong- 

 ing to the Asiatic Society. 



Read also a letter from Mr. Csoma De Korosi, of 31st March 1841, with a list on the same 

 subject. 



Ordered that the papers be referred to a Committee specially selected, for investigation and 

 report upon the subject, with a view to the adoption of measures for preventing the cause of 

 complaint connected with this particular branch of the Society's Museum; and in pursuance of the 

 foregoing resolution, the Officiating Curator, Messrs. Huffnagle and Stirling, and Dr. Hceber- 

 iiN were selected to form a Committee for the purpose. 



Read a letter from Capt. Geo. Twemlow, Bengal Artillery, of 18th June 1841, forwarding speci- 

 mens of black shining ore-like particles, which form on the ground of the table land near the 

 fortress of Gawilghur near EUichpore after rain, wherever water has run, the ground being of 

 reddish soil, formed apparently from Basalt under decomposition. On inspection of the specimens, 

 they were pronounced by the Officiating Curator to be the common granular Magnetic Iron Ore. 



Ordered, that Capt. Twemlow be informed accordingly. 



Read a letter from Capt. W. E. Hay, of the 7th June 1841, descriptive of an extraordinary Bird 

 he met with among the Eastern Islands. 



Read a letter from Lieut. A. Cunningham, of the 25th June last, on the Inscriptions from the 

 Girnar Rock. 



Read a letter from Capt. Jacob, of 15th June 1841, forwarding a Transcript in Nagree characters 

 of the Ancient Inscriptions on the Girnar Rock near Joonaghur, in Kattywar, comprising the 

 Eastern portion of the Rock. 



Read also two letters from Lieut. Postans, on the products of Khorassan. 



The Secretary informed the Meeting, that the subjects treated of in the foregoing papers, would 

 be published in early numbers of the Asiatic Journal. 



Read a letter from Mons. E. Burnouf, of 12th April 1841, acknowledging Moorcroft's Travels, 

 and regretting the interruptions of intercourse between the two Societies, &c. 



Read also a letter from the Secretary Linnean Society, London, 10th November 1840, forwarding 

 3 vols, of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, and noticing the irregularity with which the 

 Asiatic Researches have been received by the Linnean Society, with Memo, of what portions of the 

 publication have been received. 



Ordered, that the publications required as presentations be forwarded, and occasion taken to 

 improve the connections of the Society with scientific bodies in England, and on the Continent of 

 Europe. 



As connected with the subject, the question for printing the Transactions of the Society was dis- 

 cussed, the printing of which had been neglected for several years from the want of subjects, the 

 magnitude of the expence of printing, &c. In removal of the first objection, the Secretary propos- 

 ed to place at the disposal of the Committee of Papers such papers as were received by him from 



