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their value. The minerals are of course easily recognised and re-numbered, but to 

 identify the rocks, of which there is but a mere dealer's catalogue, is necessarily a work 

 of much longer time, as many books and descriptions must be referred to, and in the end, 

 a few will be always uncertain. Nevertheless, the Society is under very great obliga- 

 tion to Major Crommelin for his liberal donation, and I trust that gentlemen who may, 

 like him, have old dealer's collections, or even remnants of collections, will not be 

 deterred, by their imperfect state and want of numbers or catalogues, from sending them. 

 We shall always be able to turn them to some account. 



1 have to record to-day also, another instance of the attention of the Government 

 of India, and the Honorable Court of Directors, to our wishes as to a Map of the 

 country comprised in Dr. Voysey's report, published in vol. II. of the Journal, where 

 at p. 304, the sections but not the Map are given. The following is the letter from 

 Government accompanying this Map : — 



No. 90. 



From T. R. Davidson, Esq., Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, 

 to H. Torrens, Esq., Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



Home Department. 

 Sir, — With reference to your letter dated the 27th of August 1842, 1 am directed 

 by the Honorable the President in Council to transmit to you the accompanying 

 Copy, Para. 30 of a Despatch from the Honorable Court of Directors No. 17 of 1843, 

 dated the 1st November, together with Dr. Voysey's Geological Map of the Country 

 between the Godavery and the Kistna therein alluded to, for the use of the Museum of 

 Economic Geology. 1 am, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 Council Chamber, the 27th January, 1844. T. R. Davidson, 



Qffg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Extract from a Despatch from the Honorable the Court of Directors in the Public 

 Department, dated the 1st November 1843, No. 17. 

 Answer to Secretary's Letter, dated \1th October, No. 20 of 1842. 



30. There is only one Geological Map connected with Dr. Voysey's report, which 

 includes part of the country between the Godavery and the 



nisteHiSl co°py b of Dr". Kistna * A C0 Py of this Ma P is forwarded as a number in the 



Voysey's Geological Map packet. 



for the Museum of Econo- 



"ic Geology. (True Extract,) 



T. R. Davidson, 

 Offy. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



This would have been brought forward at the same time as Major Herbert's Map, 

 but it came in late, and I detained it from that report to refer to the Journal, and 

 (for which I have to apologise) forgot it at the next Meeting. 



I have the pleasure to exhibit a very well drawn and accurate copy of Captain Her- 

 bert's Map from the press of Messrs. D'Rozario and Co., which is now in progress of 

 colouring, and will be distributed with a number of the Journal ; a large margin being 

 left to take it out and put in again to the volume to which it belongs. 1 have farther 



