1842.] Asiatic Society. 441 



The Image referred to, has been received, and placed in the Museum. 



Read letter of 23rd March 1842, to Secretary to the Military Board from Captain 

 G. B. Tremenheere, forwarding some concluding Remarks by him on his report 

 on the Tin Grounds of Mergui. 



Read letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby of 9th March last, forwarding Corres- 

 pondence containing information on the Nurma Cotton Ground in Guzerat. 



Read letter from Lieut. Colonel A. Spiers, Resident at Gwalior, of 25th March 

 last, and enclosures on the subject of the Nurma Cotton Ground in Gwalior. 



Read the following papers by Captain R. Shortreede, First Assistant, Grand Tri- 

 gonometrical Survey ; viz. 



On the calculation of Barometric Heights with Tables. 



Remarks on some of the disturbing causes in Barometric Observations. 



Remarks on an Inscription of a Magic Square, copied from an old temple in the 

 hill fort of Gwalior. 



The Secretary intimated that the subjects of the foregoing papers would be 

 noticed by him in early numbers of the Journal. 



Read letter of 9th April 1842, from Lieut. Baird Smith of Engineers, forwarding 

 a " Note on the recent Earthquakes on the North-western Frontier." Lieut. Smith 

 writes, " My object being to attract attention to these interesting occurrences, 

 " and to secure some more methodical and carefully detailed information relative to 

 " their various phenomena than we have hitherto had." The " Note" referred to, 

 the Secretary intimated would be published in an early number of the Journal. 



Read following Letter of 16th April 1842, from Dr. A. Campbell, of Darjeeling. 



Darjeeling, April 1G, 1842. 

 My dear Torrens, 

 I had not time to make a memorandum for the Society of the last hours of De Koros, 

 but in my report to Government, forwarded this day, you will find almost all I could 

 have said. You can readily get it from Bushby's office, and make any use of it you 

 think necessary. It concerns you to look after the bequeathment of Rs. 5,000. I hope 

 the Society will not think me an unworthy member for not having furnished you with 

 a report, but to have attempted one formally, and for a learned Society, would have 

 led to the notion that 1 believed myself capable, from a knowledge of the pursuits of the 

 deceased, to do justice to his merits. Whereas in my official report to Government, 

 this is not looked for, and still it may serve to communicate some interesting particu- 

 lars to the world and his friends. I hope the Society will erect a monument over 

 him. Here we would subscribe to it. What a pity it is that he did not die near 

 Hodgson ! 



Yours, &c. 



A. Campbell. 



