vi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. QJan. 1844. 



Brought over, ... .. .. .. .. .. 640 8 



Jawame-ul-Ilrn-ul-riazi, one copy, .. .. .. .. ..4 



Khazanat-ul-Ilm, one copy, .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 



Sharaya-ul- Islam, 2 copies, .. .. .. .. .. 16 



Asiatic Researches, vols. XVIII, 1 copy ; XIX, 1 ditto; XX, 2 ditto, .. 40 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society, Nos. 52, 56, 61, 65, 84, 90, 103 to 119, 125 to 



130, and Supplement to No. 126, one copy each, .. .. 51 8 



Total Rupees 760 

 E. Roer, 

 Calcutta, the 2d January, 1844. Librarian, Asiatic Society. 



Read report of the Curator Museum of Economic Geology, for the month of 

 December. 



REPORT OF THE CURATOR MUSEUM ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND GEOLOGICAL AND MINI- 

 RALOGICAL DEPARTMENT, FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. 



Mineralogical and Geological. — I have been unable to complete, for this month, the 

 arrangement of the specimens brought by Capt. Russell from the Cheduba Archi- 

 pelago, but I trust to do so by next month. I have moreover not yet obtained Capt. 

 Russell's detailed report. 



Capt. Newbold, M. N. I. has sent us from Kurnool three small, but very curious, 

 specimens of "organic bodies in a vein of chert in the Kurnool limestone." When 

 examined by a magnifier, these are seen to be minute nummulitcs, more or less silici- 

 fied. None of them effervesce with acids, though the matrix in the less compact 

 looking parts does so. It is probable that the limestone would be also found to 

 contain these bodies, either at the spot these were found, or in the vicinity of it. In 

 a geological point of view, the presence of the fossils of so recent a formation in that 

 quarter of India is highly interesting. 



Museum Economic Geology. — Capt. Shortrede has, at my request, kindly sent us a 

 box, containing eight specimens of tolerable size of the lithographic stones from near 

 Rewah, of which impressions and specimens were presented at the September and Oc- 

 tober meetings ; these are now in the hands of Mr. Black for trial and report. 



Mr. W. C. Drew has presented us with a mineral, which though common enough 

 in itself, is from its locality of considerable interest. It is a fragment of argentiferous 

 lead ore from Adelaide in Australia: of which I learn that so large a quantity as eight 

 tons had been sent from that port to Sydney for smelting. 



Capt. Oldfield, Executive Engineer of the Saugor division, has presented us with a 

 very interesting set of specimens of iron ores, and other minerals from that district. 

 His letter is as follows : — 



To H. Piddington, Esq. Curator of the Economic Museum, Calcutta. 



Sir, — Having been favoured by you with a copy of the printed Memorandum rela- 

 tive to the objects of the Museum of Economic Geology, I took the opportunity of pass* 

 ing through the town of Heerapoor in Bundelkund, to observe the method of smelting, 

 and to collect some iron ores from that district. 



The large specimen marked ' Heerapoor iron ore,' shews the average quality, of which 

 the quantity is unlimited. The whole neighbourhood may be said to abound in iron, 

 the ore is at the surface, or rather the mines are mere cave* in iron rocks. The iron stone 



