1842.] Asiatic Society. 603* 



Museum of Economic Geology. 

 Read report of the Curator in this Department for the Month of May last. 

 Report of the Curator Museum Economic Geology for the month of May. 



Museum Economic Geology. — The Memoir alluded to in my last report, explaining 

 briefly the object and wants of the institution, and soliciting contributions has been 

 with the approbation of the Honourable the President and Secretary, printed, and is 

 now on the table. . It will be circulated as widely as possible in all the Presidencies, 

 and in Europe, so as to insure us every chance of assistance. 



I have resumed the arrangement of the Museum, and hope to get through with it, 

 and the Catalogues shortly. 



We are indebted to Mr. Hodgson of Nepal, for asmall collection of iron, copper, and 

 lead ores from Nepal, of which one or two are new to the Museum, and all valuable as 

 contributing to our Indian series.* 



Geological and Miner alogical. — We have at length to announce the arrival from 

 Kemaon of three, out of five volumes of Captain Herbert's Journals, the remaining two 

 being for the present with Mr. Batten, as explained in his letter. 



Upon examining these volumes with reference to the collection in our cabinets, I 

 find they relate first to from numbers 1 to about 375, then from 1 to 379 of the second 

 thousand, and lastly from 1563 to 1612, leaving thus a blank of about 800 names and 

 localities, which I doubt not, or at least I hope, will be found in the other books. 



From a cursory examination of these volumes, I will venture to congratulate the 

 Society very sincerely upon the amount of Geological and Mineralogical knowledge, 

 which we have thus, I hope, obtained the means of giving to the world ; (if we can but 

 connect Captain Herbert's complicated systems of numbers,) and his friends upon the 

 justice which these volumes will I trust enable us to do to his memory. 



Major Manson who was Captain Herbert's Assistant, has been written to, to obtain 

 any assistance which he can give us. We have received in this Department seven 

 specimens (Geological) from Mr. H. Stanley. And I have been chiefly occupied 

 in part with Captain Herbert's collections, and in part with our own Geological series. 



H. Piddington. 

 Museum, 3\st May, 1842. 



Read letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby of the 2nd February 1842, forwarding a 

 box of specimens of Magnetic Iron Ore, from Tavoy, Sulphuret of Antimony from the 

 neighbourhood of Moulmein, and of the Mergui coal received from Captain Tremen- 



HEERE. 



An interesting Chart of the Barometrical curve, during the late storm, was exhibited 

 to the Meeting by Mr. Piddington, who explained that he was in hopes of obtaining 

 through the data he looked for from this storm, a Barometrical measure of the distance 



* I have to mention also, that permission has been obtained from Government to indent upon 

 the Honorable Company's Dispensary, for such re-agents and apparatus as it may possess, which 

 will be required for the Laboratory of the Museum. 



