980 Museum of Economic Geology of India. [No. 106. 



Mr. Piddington, 



As. Soc. Museum. 



I have printed with unfeigned pleasure, the foregoing memorandum, 

 to the value of which no recommendation can add. Every friend to India, 

 whether connected with the Society or not, will, it is earnestly hoped, aid 

 in accomplishing the great ends, to which, by the liberality of the Court of 

 Directors and of the Government of India, it may now aim ; viz. the full 

 development of the agricultural and mineral resources of the country. 

 Since this memoir was read to the Society, the following contributions 

 to the Museum of Economic Geology, in addition to the collections sent 

 out by the Court of Directors, under the care of Capt. Tremenheere, have 

 been received. 



Specimens of cotton, coifee, sugar, tobacco, and 



tea soils, &c. from India, the Mauritius, United States, 



Singapore, &c. of which many are analysed. 



^ . ^ Specimens of Burdwan iron ores : analysed. 



Actmg Curator, <* ^ • ,.1 1 -. . 1 



A„ c^„ AT,, ) Specimens of the earths used m the curious red 



glazing of the native sugar pans. 



Specimen of white clay from Rotasghur, which 



s. may be used like pipe clay for claying sugar. 



I doubt not that we shall shortly be enabled to add many more to this 

 list. To use the words of Mr. Piddington, " Our friends have only to re- 

 collect, that nothing pertaining to, or derived from the earth, if useful to 

 man, can be unacceptable to our intended collection, and that even what 

 may to them appear an every-day matter, and of no moment, may be 

 fraught with important results in the hands of others." 



I append to this valuable paper, further correspondence of interest to the 

 Society, and to subscribers to the Journal on this important subject of 

 Geological research, it having been put at my disposal by the Committee 

 of Papers. 



G. A« BusHBY, Esq. Secretary to the Government of India^ 

 Sir, General Department. 



Being authorised by the Honorable Court of Directors to deliver to 

 the Government of India certain specimens illustrative of the mineral 

 productions of England, I have now the honour to report my arri- 



