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curious greywacke and also metalliferous talcose rocks; Dheenpoor, the site of some 

 large copper mines in this province, &c. This fact shews that Herbert had visited the 

 Province, before the period of the Journal which I propose to edit. Yet, I have 

 never seen any record of his tour to Sreenuggur, Kedarnath, &c, that is of his first 

 visit to Kumaon, and that part of Gurhwal which is attached to this province, and I 

 should like much to discover some Journal of the tour in question. Mr. Piddington 

 will find the volume of MS. which I propose to send to-morrow, less kakographic 

 and more easy to decypher than the volume which I retain, (there being no breaks to, 

 and no great admixture of other matter with the narrative,) moreover, numbers of 

 people, and among them my friend Pratt, know the country described. It is a great 

 pity that Dr. McClelland confined (no fault of his though) his observations in Kumaon 

 to the immediate neighbourhood of Lohooghat and Petora. Had he examined the 

 country South- West and North of Almorah, he would have been able to edit Herbert's 

 Kumaon volume, and to elucidate Manson's mysterious pothooks. As it is, you must 

 kindly beg the Asiatic Society to be thankful for the MSS. already sent, and 

 the MS. promised by to-morrow's dak, and to await with patience (for I have not 

 much leisure,) my edition of Herbert and Manson's Kumaon Journal, which I will 

 endeavour to make as luminous as possible. 



Believe me to remain, 



My dear Torrens, 



Yours very sincerely, 



J. H. Batten. 



The letter having been read, it was proposed by the Lord Bishop, seconded by 

 the President, — That the thanks of the Society be voted to Mr. Batten for the valu- 

 able services rendered by him in the recovery and transmission of the late Captain 

 Herbert's manuscripts, and that the acknowledgments of the Society be tendered 

 to Mr. Batten for his offer of editing the late Captain Herbert's and Major 

 Manson's Journal in Kumaoon. 



Read the following report submitted by the Curator of the Museum : — * 

 Sir, 



Since my last Report to the Society, the following donations of Zoological speci- 

 mens have been received for the Museum. 



From Dr. Wallich, a very fine specimen of the true Zibet of Buffon, or Viverra 

 Zibetha of Linnaeus, being a species of rare occurrence in European Museums, indeed 

 I only know of one specimen which is in the British Museum, for the Tanggalung of 

 the Malays, regai'ded as Buffon's Zibet by the brothers Cuvier, is quite a different 

 animal, which has since been termed V. tanggalunga by Mr. Gray : the present 

 species is the V. melanura of Mr. Hodgson, and an interesting notice of its habits, 

 with a very recognisable figure, occurs in Williamson's * Oriental Scenery'; there is 

 also a figure and notice of this species in the 1st No. of Dr. McClelland's ' Journal 

 of Natural History.' 



Likewise a female specimen of Parodoxurus typus, which has been added to the 

 collection of stuffed mammalia. 



In the class of Birds, I have the pleasure to record the donation, from Government, 

 of a beautiful recent specimen of Tragopan satyrus, which has been mounted. 



* This Report should have been published with the " Proceedings of the Asiatic Society," at 

 p. 274, and have preceded the Report given at p. 444 el, scq.—Cur. As. Soc. 



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