676 Asiatic Society/. QNo. 116. 



Additions to the Museum have been as follows :— 



05^eo%ica^.— Skeleton of the Neel-Ghye. 



Mineralogic^l, Geological, and Botanical. — Coal, sandstone, limestone, iron -ore, garnets, hemp, 



dyeing drugs, &c. from the Chinnoor Sircar, collected by Dr. Walker, presented by Government.- 



Museum Economic Geology.— Soils from Assam Tea Company. 



Yours obedient servant. 



Museum, 51st July, 1841, H. Piddington. 



At the recommendation of a Sub-Committee the following order as respects the 

 Numismatic Collections of the Society was recorded for future observance ; viz. " That 

 no coins be removed from the apartments of the Society without special permission for 

 a special purpose, on a written order given on the responsibility of the Secretary." 



A sample of a Table Cabinet (invented by the Secretary) for containing the Coins 

 was submitted to the meeting, and one like it ordered to be prepared. 



Read titles of Baron de Hammer's works prepared by Dr. Roer, which the 

 Secretary intimated he would publish in the Journal for the information of the curious, 

 and should inquiry be made for any particular subject, that he would publish a trans- 

 lation of the same with the assistance of Dr. Roer, who had kindly offered his ser- 

 vices. 



Read a letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby, of the 23rd June, 1841, forwarding an 



Extract from a Dispatch of the Honorable the Court of Directors of 28th April, 1841, 

 expressing their wish to receive a selection of specimens of Fossil Geology of India, for 

 their Museum at the India House. 



Ordered, — That the Government be informed in reply that the Society would bear the 



request in mind. 



Read a letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby of the 2Ist July 1841, with enclosures, re- 

 questing the opinion of the Asiatic Society as to the Inscription to be placed on Bheem 

 Sing's Lath at Allahabad, adding at the same time, that "the Right Honorable the 

 Governor General in Council would be unwilling to add any Inscription to the Lath 

 itself." 



Ordered,— That a communication be made in reply, that the Society concur in opinion 

 with His Lordship in Council, that no Inscription should be on the Lath. 



Read a letter of the 13th May 1841, from Moonshee Ruttun Sing Bahadoor, of 

 Lucknow, accompanied with a work compiled by him on Geography and Meteorology, 

 which he offered for the kind acceptance of the Society, " as a humble token of the 

 high admiration and respect in which the Society is universally held." 



Ordered, — That the' civility be reciprocated by the presentation to Moonshee 

 Ruttun Sing, with a bound copy of the Transactions of the Society. 



Read the following papers, the greater part of which were received by the Secretary 

 as Editor of the Journal. 



