xlviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [May, 1844. 



Read letter from the Rev. W. Yates, addressed to the Honorable the Pre- 

 sident, with a copy of the " Nalodya," the able and very useful work to 

 which it refers. 



The Honorable W. W. Bird, Esq. President of the Asiatic Society. 



Dear Sir, — If it is not giving you too much trouble, will you allow me to beg of 

 you the favour of presenting to the Asiatic Society at their next Meeting the accom- 

 panying work. It is so much in keeping with the designs of Sir W. Jones, the noble 

 founder of the Institution, that 1 venture to entertain the hope, that it will not be un- 

 acceptable. 



I am, your's very truly, 



W. Yates. 

 April 12, 1814. 



Read the following letter from J. Muir, Esq. C. S. : — 



H. W. Torrens, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



My dear Sir, — I am sorry to find that the untoward circumstances mentioned in 

 your letter, (received some time ago in Calcutta,) have for the present put a stop to the 

 measures in progress for the publication of the Sdrira Vidya. Could you kindly give 

 me an idea what it would cost to print and edit the MS. in the manner formerly pro- 

 posed, either with or without the plates, which were to be had out from England. In 

 the mean time, I should like if possible to have a MS. copy of the work, if that can 

 be allowed me, in the Nagree character, and if you would be good enough to order it 

 to be put in hand, I will remit the cost of copying. 



I remain, My dear Sir, 



Your's faithfully, 

 Agra, April 9, 1844. J. Muir, 



Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Ordered, that a statement be drawn out and submitted in the first instance 

 to the Committee of Papers. 



Report of the Curator Museum of Economic Geology, and Geological and 

 Mineralogical Departments, for the month of April, 1844. 



From Major Crommelin, B. E. through Messrs. Colvin and Co. we have to acknow- 

 Geological and Mineralo- ledge a very handsome donation of upwards of 200 specimens 

 S lcal * of Rocks and Minerals, Scottish, English, (Cumberland and 



Westmorland,) and Foreign, with about a dozen specimens of organic remains, 

 amongst which last I may note as a valuable addition to our cabinets, portions of the 

 jaw with teeth, of an Icthyosaurus, and a beautiful slab with remains of the Briarean 

 Pentacrinite. Of the rocks and minerals, many are very great additions to our cabinets, 

 and all would have been far more so had any numbers or labels remained to the rocks 

 by which we could have referred them to the localities from which so many derive 



