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Sculls with Horns. — for the Museum, 1 



duplicates, for sending home, .. ., 6 



Total, 7 



Horns.— iox the Museum, 2 



duplicates, for sending home, 5 



Total, 7 



i^wA.— for the Museum, 1 



duplicates for sending home, 8 



Total, 9 



Porpoise scull. Alligator, Iguana, Lizard, Turtle, &c. altogether 7 



Snakes io spirits of wine, rotten and thrown away 13 



Skins of animals rotten and thrown away 8 



N. B. Claws and beaks of birds, and sculls of animals, preserved when worth do- 

 ing so. 



Fish Reptiles ^c. — Nothing more to report. 



^^ Donations. — Have been numerous and important. I have already noticed Sir A. 



BuRNEs' collection, to which we have to add the following : — 



Dr. Spilsbury — a chest of Fossil bones from the Nerbudda. 



Col. Macleod — two boxes, being series of geological specimens collected by the 

 late Captain Pemberton on his mission to Bootan. No catalogue with them. 



H. PiDDiNGTON, Acting Curator. — A collection of Cotton, Coffee, Sugar, Tobacco, 

 and Tea soils, &c. from India, Mauritius, United States, Singapore, &c. many of them 

 analysed. 7 Specimens of Burdwan Iron ores analysed. Specimens of the earths 

 used in the curious glazing of native Sugar-pans. 



G. EwBANK, Esq. — A young panther. Skeleton for the Museum. 



Mr. D. E. Rodrigues.— A pink-headed Duck, Fuligula caryophillacea— Museum. 



Mr. H. P. Vierre. — A Snipe, Scolopax — ? Museum. 



Purchased. — 2 Wild Geese, Anas indica or black-hooded Goose. 1 Skeleton ; 1 

 stuffed, — Museum. 1 have the honor to be. Sir, 



Calcutta, Your obedient servant, 



\st March, iUO. H. PIDDINGTON, 



Actg. Curator, As. Soc. Museum. 



The Society having been requested by Government, by a letter from Mr. Secretary 

 Bushby of the 3rd February last, to submit a report of their Curator on the speci- 

 mens brought by Captain Tremenheere, and deposited with the Society for the basis 

 of a Museum of Economic Geology, and in what manner they were of opinion 

 additions to the present collection may most usefully be made to it — Read the 

 following report from Mr. H. Piddington, dated 26th February, 1841. 



