876 Asiatic Society. [No. 129. 



away from Calcutta at so short a notice, that I had not time to fill in a Section of 

 Bhootan, (which I had prepared on a large scale,) so as to shew the Geology through- 

 out every mile. This outline I left with Pemberton, who gives it on a smaller scale in 

 his printed report, but he may have filled up the one he got from me ; if you have the 

 luck to get it, much trouble will be saved you. In Pemberton's Report there is a 

 Synoptical Table, showing, amongst other things, the Geology of every stage, which will 

 enable you to lay out the specimens not far from the truth, but it is not of course 

 altogether satisfactory. Regretting extremely my inability to give you the required 



information, I remain, 



Very faithfully your's, 



M. T. Blake. 



I have been also engaged in examining five volumes of Dr. Voysey's Journals. 

 My report on them is partly stated in my letter of the 19th instant, addressed 

 to our Secretary, and with the approbation of the Honorable the President, Go- 

 vernment has been addressed as therein recommended; and when I add that Dr. 

 Voysey's whole time may be said to have been spent in crossing and recrossing the 

 vast field of the trap formation from the Kistna to the Ganges, and from Cuttack to 

 Bombay, noting day by day his acute and able remarks on it, it will be conceived with 

 what interest these will be read in Europe, and how much they may contribute to 

 advance our knowledge of the Geology of India. Our Secretary has authorised me 

 to employ a Copyist for the purpose of extracting the geological and mineralogical 

 details, (which require to be separated from various others with which they are mix- 

 ed up) for the purpose of publication in the Journal, and I hope also to recover from 

 our neglected stores, some of the series of specimens to which the Journal refers. 



30th July, 1842. H. Piddington, 



Curator Museum Economic Geology. 



For the contributions and presentations, the thanks of the Society were accorded. 



Proceedings of the Asiatic Society .^ 

 (Friday Evening, 2d September, 1842.,) 



The Hon'ble H. T. Prinsep, Esq. President, in the chair. 



Messrs. James Mackenzie and A. S. Gladstone, proposed at the last 

 Meeting, were ballotted for, and unanimously elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Ordered — That the usual communication of their election be made to 

 Messrs. Mackenzie and Gladstone, and that they be furnished with the 

 rules of the Society for their guidance. 



