1842.] Asiatic Society. 809 



to belong strictly to the Indian form of Dasyornis (Jardine and Selby), being the 

 fourth Indian species referrible to it with which I am now acquainted. — E. B. 



Museum Economic Geology. 



Read the following letter from the Deputy Secretary to the Government 



of India, of 8th June last : — 



No. 575. 



To H. Torrens, Esq. 



Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



General Department. 



Sir, — With reference to the Correspondence noted in the margin, I am directed to 



transmit for the information of the Asiatic Society, the annexed Extract Paragraph 



104, from a despatch from the Honourable Court of Directors in the Public Depart- 



From Officiating Secretary ment, No. 6 of 1842, dated 22nd March, and to request that 



Asiatic Society, dated 12th wnen several specimens of the same Minerals are received 



June 1840, with Enclosure. . r 



To ditto dated 17th June. in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, duplicates thereof 



may be forwarded to this Department, properly packed for transmission to the Ho- 

 nourable Court. I have the honour to be, Sir, 

 Council Chamber, Your most obedient servant, 

 The 8th June, 1842. H. V. Bayley, 



Depy. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Extract from a Letter No. 6 0^1842, from the Honourable Court of the Directors in 

 the Public Department, dated the TLnd March. 



2 ofnted ^urato^to^the 104, As several specimens of the same Minerals are likely 



Efr tt'lZSc! at to be frequently received in the Museum of the Asiatic 



thorized by the Court. The -, -. ; , ., ,., . „ ... . , 



acknowledgment of the So- Society, we should hue to be furnished with duplicate 

 ciety presented to the Court . . 



for their liberal patronage. specimens of which the locality has been ascertained. 



(True Extract,) « 



H. V. Bayley, 



Depy. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Read the following Report of the Joint Curator for the month of June 

 last : — 



Report of the Curator, Museum Economic Geology, for the month of June. 



Museum Economic Geology. — We have been principally employed in this month in searching for, 

 and arranging from the Society's old collections, a suite of Indian Iron Ores ; and I have the plea- 

 sure of exhibiting a commencement of 69 specimens, comprising 34 species and varieties, some of 

 which are new, as Indian Ores of that metal, as far as I am aware. The crystallised Phosphate of 

 Iron No. 39, from Bundlecund, and the earthy Phosphate No. 66, from Assam, are the most re- 

 markable of these. The series from Bundlecund is valuable as relating to Capt. Franklin's excel- 

 lent paper and map in the XVIIIth vol. of our Transactions. We have also made some progress 

 in the arrangements of the Indian Copper Ores. 



Geological and Mineralogical Museum. — We have to announce here a discovery of the very high- 

 est importance to Indian Geology, which is that of Captain Herbert's MSS. Geological Report, and 

 moreover the certainty, from its title page, that it was accompanied by a Geological Map ! and 



