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mens should be collected, and what information should accompany 

 them. 



3. — The Board desire me to express their hope, that officers will 

 turn their attention to the objects contemplated in the formation of the 

 proposed Museum, and they desire me to request, that when any box of 

 specimens is collected the circumstance may be reported to you, and 

 your orders taken as to its transmission before any actual expense is in- 

 curred. A copy of the descriptive papers which are to accompany the 

 box should also be sent to you, in order, that if the information appears 

 deficient in any essential point, you may have the deficiency supplied 

 before the specimens are actually sent to Calcutta. 



4. — The Board would wish you to exercise your discretion as to 

 having the boxes sent in the first instance to your own office and 

 thence transmitted to Calcutta, or in desiring Executive Officers to send 

 the specimens direct to the Presidency ; but in either case, they should 

 be sent to the Board's office for transmission to Government. 



5. — The Board request particular attention to the 2d paragraph of 

 Mr. Bushby's letter, but they do not conceive it to be the intention of 

 Government, that useful specimens should be entirely withheld, when 

 opportunities of sending them free of expense do not occur. The Board 

 trust, however, that the most economical mode of transmission will 

 always be adopted. 



I have, &c, 



(Signed) A. Broome, 

 Officiating Secretary Military Board. 

 Military Board Office, 6th November, 1841. 



To G. A. Bushby, Esq., Secretary to Government, General Department. 

 Sir, — Your letter dated the 1st ultimo, with its enclosures, was laid 

 before the Meeting of the Asiatic Society held in this month, and the 

 Meeting referred the subject to the Committee of Papers, in order that 

 full consideration might be given to the important subject urged by the 

 Honorable Court of Directors upon the attention of the Society, in 

 connexion with the formation of a Museum of Economic Geology for 

 India, and the collection and arrangement of specimens here, of which 

 duplicates should be transmitted for preservation in appropriate Museums 

 in England. 



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