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" B with considerable force, and thus produces a continued and powerful 

 " blast. 



" The people here say it came from " Cheen" — and believe one of the Nepalese 

 " Soobahs first introduced it, about forty or fifty years ago. The curious part of it, I 

 " fancy, is the distinct application of Steam to one art so many years ago, among a 

 "people so utterly devoid of mechanical knowledge in other matters as our hill 

 " men are." 



The specimen has been received, and placed in the Museum, being previously 

 mounted. 



Read letter of 18th April 1842, from Lieutenant J. Brockman, H. M. 50th 

 Regiment, presenting two Tartar Bows, &c. Quiver of Arrows taken at Amoy, 

 also a kind of Sword taken at Chinhae. 



The Secretary submitted to the Meeting private Seals and Seals of Office found in 

 the house of the principal Mandarins of Amoy at the taking of that place ; a 

 Silken Belt, a Chinese Soldier's Uniform with the name and number of his corps on 

 breast and back, taken at Ningpo from the Chinese Arsenal, and a curious Under- 

 Sliirt for wearing next the skin in hot weather, taken at the storming of Chinhae. 



The whole presented by Mr. Dalrymple of the C. S. to whom the best thanks of 

 the Society were voted. 



The Secretary at the same time presented a Standard Colour of a Chinese Marine 

 Regiment, and a Sword taken at the storming of the Bogue forts in China. 



The following list of specimens were presented by Colonel H. Burney : — 



An Echinite, from Jebel Jaise, near Cairo. . 



Specimen of a portion of the stem of a Fossil Palm, and samples of fossil exogen- 

 ous wood, from the petrified forest near Cairo. 



Ditto of Limestone, of which the great Pyramid is built. 



Ditto of close Stalagmitic Limestone, whereof the splendid mosque now building 

 by Mehemet Ali is constructed. 



Ditto of the coarser of two kinds of Granite met with in the vicinity of the 

 Pyramids, and of which some of the latter are partly constructed, together with 

 various Sarcophagi. 



Read petition of 2nd May 1842, from Sree Ram Govinda Sormona, praying to 

 be presented with the last vol. of the Mahabharut for correcting the proof sheets of 

 Sanscrit Books. The presentation ordered. 



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