754 Asiatic Society. [No. 117. 



&c. as per annexed memo, which I now send, but a relapse of fever prevents me. I 

 regret that I should not have been able to have brought a finer and more extensive 

 collection, but there are reasons for it, which the least mentioned the better. 



I would beg to invite the attention of any member versed in mineralogy to the 

 minerals; they belong to the iron formation of the Keunjhur Mountains, and appear 

 uncommon. 



The fish is, I fancy, a nondescript species of carp, it is a stone-sucker like the loach, 

 and has like feeders or appendages to the mouth ; it is like the "kalabanse," which is also 

 a stone-sucker, but it differs in size, colour, and the shape of the mouth in particular; it 

 is sometimes caught as high as 2| to 3 seers in weight. The specimen from which the 

 drawing was taken was about \\ seer or more. I have never seen this in any other river 

 but the Brahmen's, which abounds in fish, and this is the second nondescript fish 

 I have found in that river. 



The squirrel is quite destroyed ; it has lost three inches of its tail, which quantum 

 Was of a pale slate colour. I believe the animal to be full grown, as there is a consi- 

 derable variety of the tribe in the Keunjhur Mountains; perhaps this specimen is 

 sufficiently perfect to admit of being properly described by Cantor or M'Clelland, to 

 whom it is my wish that all the specimens be sent, for examination and nomenclature. 

 The snakes must go to Cantor. There are several which are well known. I brought 

 them merely to increase the stock, to enable the Society to furnish duplicates to other 

 Museums. The birds' eggs are damaged; they will do in the room of better specimens. 



The book I send, I consider to be a curiosity. 



Yours sincerely, 



Calcutta, \st September, 1841. M. Kittoe. 



Minerals. 



Three specimens from the iron formation of the Keunjhur Mountains. 



Two Ditto of serpentine and one green quartz (?) from Juspoor. 



Ditto of an elegant squirrel, Keunjhur hills. 



Ditto 6 snakes, and a kind of scorpion, also lizard, Keunjhur and Mohurbhunj 

 Jungles. 



Ditto broken, and of a hawk, called in Hindoostan " Luzzur." 



An unfinished drawing of a fish caught in the Brahmen's river, believed to be a 

 nondescript. 



An ancient work in one volume, with manuscript marginal notes, entitled *' A Dis- 

 course touching the Spanish Monarchy," translated from the Latin edition by Campa- 

 NELL A, a Spanish monk, in the 16th century, printed in 1654. 



A war-cap adorned with human hair, and a crest of the tail hair of the elephant, 

 worn by the chiefs of the Naga tribes, together with some Naga spears and swords, were 

 presented by Mr. Milne, late in the employ of the Assam Tea Company. 



The Secretary noticed the safe arrival of the taxidermist, who had been sent to 

 Chybassa, and placed under Lieut. S. Tickell, in pursuance of the plans the Society 

 have in view, of placing taxidermists throughout the country, for the preparation of 

 objects collected by Members, who take an interest in the subject. 



For the presentations and contributions, the thanks of the Society were accorded. 



