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2. — The Governor of Bengal is aware, that a suitable room of our 

 premises has been assigned for the specimens brought to India by 

 Captain Tremenheere, and that the Society has a large assortment of 

 Mineralogical and other specimens, collected from various parts of India, 

 from which, with care in the arrangement, and particular attention to 

 the localities from which the articles have been procured, a valuable 

 Museum of the kind desired, might now be commenced upon, so as to 

 form nucleus of an (Economic institution, to which all public officers 

 might refer for information, and into which all further objects of useful 

 discovery might, as collected by the Officers of Government, be brought 

 for safe deposit and investigation. 



3.— But for the arrangement of the specimens we possess in the scienti- 

 fic order requisite, and for their discrimination and proper ascertainment, 

 the entire services of a gentleman versed in somewhat more than the 

 rudiments of sciences of Geology and Mineralogy, and a proficient in 

 Chemistry, and the use of tests for purposes of analysis, will obviously 

 be indispensible ; and it would be a great advantage that this gentleman 

 should also not be a stranger to the Geography and languages of the 

 country, and that he should be known to, and in habits of correspondence 

 with, persons engaged in similar pursuits in different parts of India. 



4. — The Curator the Society has recently obtained from Europe, Mr. 

 Blyth, is eminent in all departments of Zoology, and his indefatigable 

 exertions in this line, have already increased largely the value of the 

 Museum, as well by the addition of an infinity of new specimens excel- 

 lently set up, as by the discovery amongst our neglected stores of 

 objects valuable to science which had escaped the less accurate investi- 

 gation of his predecessors in this line. But Mr. Blyth's whole time is 

 occupied in this very extensive branch of the Museum, and he does not 

 profess at present, to be sufficiently acquainted with Mineralogy 

 and Geology, to be able to superintend the formation of the desired 

 CEconomic Museum ; besides that being new to the country, and unac- 

 quainted with its localities and languages, he would feel greatly at a 

 loss in the attempt to arrange and investigate the affinities of soil, and 

 other characteristic peculiarities of provinces and districts, which it 

 should be the aim of an CEconomic Museum to display. 



5. — The Society has been indebted to Mr. Piddington for all that 

 has yet been done in this department ; the qualifications of this gentle- 



