728 Asiatic Society. [No. 103. 



A memorandum of assets was submitted by the Officiating Secretary, as pre- 

 pared by Mr. W. H. Bolst, Assistant and Accountant, shewing at credit of 

 the Society in the Bank of Bengal, .. .. .. .. Rs. 3,916 



Outstanding bills to the 2nd quarter of 1840 for contributions from 

 members, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rs. 5,096 



ZJowfi^/TM^— Parties being absent in England, &c. .. ., 1,168 



Irrecoverable — Parties being dead, ,. .. .. 304 1,472 



Rs. 3,624 



Add contributions for the 3rd. quarter of 1840, just due and realizable, 



about,.. Rs. 2,400 



In course of realization, Rs. 6,024 



Read the following letter and list of land and fresh water shells for the East India 

 Company's Museum, by Dr. J. T. Pearson. 



To the Officiating Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



*' Sir, — Having seen in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, an extract of a letter 

 from Dr. Horsfield, in which he states that the Museum of the E. I. Company con- 

 tains but few specimens of the Zoology of the continent of India; I have the honour 

 to request you will obtain for me the favour of the Society transmitting to that gentle- 

 man, the accompanying fifty species of the land and fresh water shells of this country ; 

 to be presented on my part to the above mentioned Museum. 



" I am induced to prefer this request, from the bad fortune which has hitherto attended 

 my private efforts to send specimens to England ; having had no news of not less than 

 three consignments to the late Secretary to the Zoological Society, Mr. Bennett (in 

 his private capacity, however,) to Mr. Swainson, and to Dr. Traill, from which cir- 

 cumstance I am induced to think they were not delivered. 



" Accompanying the specimens is a list, with such remarks of their locality, &c., as 

 I thought might be useful. 



'* As the specimens are for the most part fragile, you will oblige me by taking great 

 care in handling them, should they be inspected by the Society. I must also add, in 

 excuse for the few specimens of each species, that I lost a considerable portion of my 

 collection ; but hope to be able hereafter to forward a greater number. 



'* If the Society will allow me, I propose to forward through them, a series of speci- 

 mens of the other branches of the Zoology of these mountains to the E. I. Company's 

 Museum, as I have opportunity for collecting them. I have, &c. &c. 



J. T. PEARSON. 



List of land and fresh water shells for the E. I. Company's Museum, from As- 

 sistant Surgeon J. T. Pearson. — Darjeelingy lOth April, 1840. 



1.— Unio bilinearis — Benson.— Found in a tank on the Esplanade of Fort William. 



2. — Unio favidens— Benson. — Found in running streams, and common in most 

 rivulets in India. 



3. — Unio maigmalis.— — — — Common in tanks of stagnant water, and less so in 

 rivulets. 



4.— Cyclostoma involvalus.—SovERLY.— Common in the Rajhmahl hills, and atj 

 Midnaporc. 



