624 Fossil remains of Camelidce of the Seivaliks. [No. 102. 



Note. — Professor Wilson's work, compiled from the papers of Messrs. 

 Morecroft and Trebeck is not procurable in Calcutta, or I should cite, on 

 better authority than mere recollection, Mr. Trebeck's mention of the wild 

 camel as now existing. I regret exceedingly I did not take a note of the 

 passage which occurs in Mr. Trebeck's journal of a tour in Sadakhj and 

 which mentions the confines of the great Tartaric plain as the alleged 

 tract in which the camel is still found in a state of nature. The question 

 is one on which even Gibbon's immense reading (Miscell. Works, vol. i.) 

 throws no light beyond the caution of the authority of Diodorus Siculus, as 

 noted by Capt. Cautley (Lib. iii. Capt. 44.) The only copy of Professor 

 Wilson's work that I have seen or heard of in India, was in the possession 

 of Sir Alex. Burnes, who while at Simla sent it to me. 



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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 (Wednesday Evening, Ind September, 1840.^ 



Dr. John Grant, Senior Member, in the chair. 



Major Rawlinson, Political Agent at Candahar, proposed at the last Meeting, was 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



The Secretary shewed to the Meeting an Astrolobe which had been prepared at 

 Benares for Mons. Theroulde. 



The following gentlemen were then proposed as Members, 



M. P. Edgeworth, Esq. Capt. W. Loveday, ditto. 



Capt. T. Hutton, 37th Regt. N. I. Dr. J. D. D. H^eberlin. 



Captain Kittoe presented to the Society the egg of an Alligator, and the egg of 

 the Caprimulgus (rarely found), with some specimens of precious serpentine found 

 near Sumbhulpore. 



Several papers were submitted to the Society, which either have appeared, or are in 

 course of preparation for the Journal ; two Reports by the late Dr. Helfer, on the 

 Mergui Archipelago, were among these. 



Specimens of the Ground Fish of the eastern part of Bengal were presented by 

 — White, Esq. of Kishnaghur, they were dug up from a depth of twelve feet below 

 the surface of the earth in Nuddeea. For notice of this fish, vide Asiatic Society's 

 Journal vol. viii. p. 551. 



A model of a Monster communicated by Colonel Caulfield, Resident at Luck- 

 now, was made over to the Medical College. 



A letter was read from Professor Wilson, stating that arrangements have been 

 made for preparation of the bust of our late Secretary Mr. James Pkinsep; thanks of 

 the Society were voted to Professor Wilson, for having thus anticipated the wishes of 

 the Society. 



