1842.] Asiatic Society. 893 



In a separate report on this mineral, addressed to our Secretary, I have pointed out the impor- 

 tance of examining the sediments below these deposits, and the river courses above them, so as to 

 trace the rock, and to ascertain if any metallic ore exists in it or in the sediments. 



The earthy deposits would make good lime, which is so great a desideratum at Darjeeling. 



From Government we received in July, (in which month's report it was omitted by an oversight,) 

 a report by Captain Campbell, Assistant Surveyor General, on the Natural History of Southern 

 India, with two specimens manufactured by himself, from the iron sand of that quarter. 



Our zealous member, G. T. Lushington Esq. Commissioner, Kemaon, has also sent us a valu- 

 able collection of sixty-four specimens of ores of iron, copper, and lead from Kemaon, which, with 

 the foregoing, are upon the table. 



From Mr. Gamier, Engineer, through our Secretary, we have received a specimen of the rose- 

 coloured sienitic granite of the interior of the Pyramids, and one of the limestone from the exte- 

 rior of them. 



Geological and Mineralogical Museum.— I have been continuing the arrangement of the mine- 

 rals, and we have received herein from the Reverend J. H. Pratt, Chaplain to the Lord Bishop, 

 an excellent little series of fifty-six Geological specimens from Gwalior to Jubulpoor in Bundle- 

 cund, comprising several curious and instructive specimens of the Geology of that interesting 

 tract of country. 



From Mr. Gamier also, we have a specimen of fossil wood, from the large deposit of it in the 

 Desert between Cairo and Suez. 



H. PlDDINGTON, 



Curator Museum Economic Geology. 



* No. 465. 



To H. Torrens, Esq. 



Secretary to tlie Asiatic Society. 

 General Department. 



Sir, I am directed to transmit to you, for the Museum of Economic Geology, the 



accompanying copy of a Letter and Report by Captain Campbell, Assistant Surveyor 

 General at Madras, on the manufacture of Natural Steel in Southern India, received 

 from the Government of Madras, together with the specimens of Steel therein re- 

 ferred to. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your most obedient Servant, 



H. V. Bayley, 

 Deputy Secretary to the Government of India. 

 Council Chamber, the \6th June, 1842. 



No. 496. 



Fort St. George, 30th May 1842. 

 To the Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Public Department. 



Sir,— I am directed by the Right Honorable the Governor in Council, to transmit 

 to you, for submission to the Supreme Government, copy of a report upon the manu- 



