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Gentlemen, Calcutta, August 6th, 1839. • 



I do myself the pleasure of forwarding for presentation, at the approach- 

 ing Meeting of the Asiatic Society, the accompanying specimens of the geology of the 

 county of Cornwall, as well as other parts of England, on behalf of Captain Jenkins, 

 the Political Agent of Assam ; and for him I have to solicit, in return, any duplicate 

 geological specimens the Society may possess for presentation to the Royal Institution 

 of Cornwall. In this request I beg to join with Captain Jenkins, as we both feel as- 

 sured that the rich stores which the Cornish Museum contains will be readily made 

 available to the improvement of the Asiatic one, and an interchange thus be effected 

 which will prove of mutual benefit. 



I beg further to add, that should the Society be pleased to accede to this proposal, 

 that I shall be happy to be the medium of communication between the two institutions, 

 so far as assisting in facilitating the transmission of the specimens. 



HENRY H. SPRY. 



The Joint Secretaries of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Captain Jenkins, and the Curator was re- 

 quested to form a suitable series of the Museum duplicates for presentation to that 

 officer. With reference to this and some similar communications, the President ob- 

 served that he was very desirous of recording his opinion that the correspondence of the 

 Society, should on all occasions pass through the Secretaries, the regular and usual 

 channels. Direct correspondence emanating from other officers of the Society he con- 

 sidered informal. He thought, for example, that all correspondence relative to the 

 Museum should pass through the Secretaries, and he proposed a resolution to that effect, 

 which was seconded by Mr. H. T. Prinsep, and carried unanimously. 



Dr. M'Clelland presented some specimens of Mineral Ore with the following 

 note : — 



Sir, — I did myself the pleasure, some time last month, of forwarding to your ad- 

 dress, a small package containing two or three specimens of Jasper and Asbestos, and 

 one of Iron ore, entrusted to my care, when at Ferozepore, by Mr. C. Masson, who 

 told me that he had almost forgotten they were amongst his baggage, not having 

 paid much attention to what was packed up by his servants when leaving Kabul. 

 I had mislaid his ticket for the specimen of the ore, which I now enclose, lest I should 

 have made any mistake in my own label, as to the place from whence the ore was 

 obtained. 



I beg to add that the ore is nearly similar, but not quite so pure or rich looking, as 

 that obtained from the mines in the southern portion of the Busahir state. 



GEORGE JEPSHON. 



Meerut, July 27th, 1839. 



Mr. H. T. Prinsep recalled the attention of the Society to the proceedings 

 of the Meeting of the Society held on the 6th September, 1837. Mr. James 

 Prinsep had appropriated the sum of 1500 francs (equivalent to Co's. Rs. 625) re- 

 mitted by the Minister of Public Instruction in France, in procuring from Benares 



