1204 Asiatic Society. [No. 132. 



Lieut. Righy, B. E., has sent us from Cuttack, a valuable assortment of the Build- 

 ing Materials, (Stone, timber and iron,) used in that province, with a very complete 

 memorandum accompanying them. 



Mr. Ince, Salt Agent at Burrisal, has forwarded us another block of wood perforated 

 by the destructive Worm of the rivers of that quarter, with two bottles of the River 

 Water. This last I am collecting for every month in the year at the two extremities of 

 the Deltas, those of the Megna and Ganges, so as to obtain some approximate notion 

 of the quantity of silt carried to the ocean by our rivers ; a problem of the highest 

 interest to geology. 



Mineralogical and Geological. — Captain Newbold, of the Madras Army, a zealous 

 friend to these researches, has presented us with a collection of 150 specimens, Minera- 

 logical and Geological, from Egypt, Aden, and Southern India, and has added greatly 

 to their value, by a detailed descriptive catalogue, of great interest. 



I have, as before stated, been wholly occupied with our minerals, which are now so 

 far on the road to arrangement, that they are in groups and families, so as to allow me to 

 place from all our old collections such specimens as are of value, or serve to fill up 

 blanks : a work of much time and labour, from the scattered and confused state of the 

 old collection, which is such, that the most valuable specimens are often the most 

 difficult to find. H. Pjddington, 



Museum, 1st Nov. 1842. Cur. Mus. Econ. Geol. 



With reference to the ornamental letter recommended by Capt. Tremenheere, it 

 was determined that the Society's engraved Plate might be used for the letters of 

 the Museum with a lithographed addition. 



Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 (Friday Evening, 9th December, 1842.J 



The Honorable the President in the Chair. 



The following list of Books, presented and purchased was read, and the thanks of 

 the Society voted to the donors. 



Books presented to the Library of the Asiatic Society, at the Meeting on the 9th 

 December, 1842. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, new series, December, 1842, vol. Ill, No. 26, 



1 pamph. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, 2nd series. Bombay, September and October, 



1842, vol. Ill, Nos. 9 and 10, 2 pamph. 

 The Calcutta Literary Gleaner, December 1842, vol. I, No. X, 1 pamph. 

 Journal des Savans, Juin, 1842. Paris, 1 pamph. 



Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, by Professor Jameson, 1842, No. 65, 1 vol. 

 Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1841, vol. XI, parts 1 and 2, 



2 vols. 



