836 Asiatic Society/. [No. 118. 



Elliott's Carnatic Inscriptions, MSS. 2 vols. 



Freytag's Chrestomathise Arabica Grammatica Historia, Bonne, 1834, vol. 2d, and 



1st, chapters 7 to 14, vols. 

 Freytag's Liber Arabicus seuFructus Imperatorum et Jocatio ingeniosorum. Bonne, 



1832, 4to. 1 vol. 

 Dastoor-Ool-Aunwar, (Persian,) 1 vol. 

 Kittab Mat-Laol-Audda-en, 1 vol. 



Read letter from Jas. Crichton, Esq. Colonial Surgeon, with a box of Insects 

 from Western Australia. 



Read letter from H. B. H in ton, Esq. Civil Surgeon, Akyab, with six Geological 

 Specimens for the Economic Department of the Asiatic Society. 



(To these, reference has been made in the Curator's Report.) 



Read Memorandum on the organization of a Museum of Economic Geology for the 

 North- Western Provinces of British India, submitted by Lieut. Baird Smith, of the 

 Engineers, agreeably to the request of the Society. 



Ordered — That a copy of the Memorandum be forwarded to Government, and the 

 original made over to the Secretary for publication in his Journal. 



Read letter from Mr. H. Cope, of Mussoorie, offering his services for the collection 

 of Lichens, for the purpose of assisting the researches set on foot by Mr. Pid- 

 DiNGTON, for the extraction of colouring matter from them. 



Read letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby, of 15th September 1841, intimating that 

 the Resident of Indore had been written for information respecting the Nurma Cotton, 

 and for specimens of the seeds and soils, and that a communication would be also 

 made to the Lieutenant Governor at Agra, that reference may be made to the Sudder 

 Board of Revenue at Allahabad, and to Mr. Bruce of Bundlecund, who is stated to be 

 well acquainted with the Nurma Cotton of Malwa. 



Heportfor the Month of September^ by the Curator. 



Animal Kingdom. 



**The arrival of two large and double glazed cabinets in the Museum, for the recep- 

 tion of the stuffed specimens of Mammalia, at the time of my taking charge of the 

 Society's collections, has occasioned me to bestow more particular attention on this 

 department, during the brief period that has elapsed since 1 assumed the duties of the 

 Curatorship, and I have accordingly inspected and properly arranged what few 

 specimens there as yet exist illustrative of the living Mammalia of India, and have 

 labelled every species with its synonyms, so far as I have been successful in deter- 

 mining the latter. 



*' With the important accessions in this class with which the Museum has been enriched 

 during the past month, the entire number of species of which we possess some portion, 

 more or less, amounts to 147. There are eighty stuffed specimens, pertaining to 64 

 species ; and seven other species may be considered as temporarily represented by 

 imperfect skins ; indeed, many of the former require exceedingly to be replaced 



