lxtv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. QJuly, 1844. 



Economic Geology, and that it will remain with the Society to consider how the 

 remainder can be supplied. 



In the accompanying lists, which comprise the articles still unprovided, the prices 

 marked are European, converting, as our Calcutta Chemical dealers usually do, shil- 

 lings into rupees. 



The amount of the two lists herewith so calculated, is : — 



Co's. Rs. 



Purchases from European shops, or to be obtained from Europe,.. .. 392 8 



Bazar purchases, 12 8 



Co's. Rs. 405 

 Say Co's. Rs. 400 

 But of this first, a part of the Indent can be reduced or dispensed with at present. 



2. A part is probably not procurable here, except perhaps at a price which should 

 not be paid unless the object was indispensably required. 



3. A part may be obtained at lower prices, and a part I can present to the Labora- 

 tory from my own stock of apparatus and re-agents. 



Altogether then, I should hope, that with a gradual outlay of at most Co's. Rs. 250, 

 I shall be able to manage for a considerable time, but this outlay is really requisite; 

 because in a Laboratory the better it is furnished, the faster the work can be carried 

 on ; and the delays of preparing or even of purchasing apparatus or re-agents at the 

 time when wanted, even if they are then obtainable, are most wasteful and discourag- 

 ing. 



I should not forget, Sir, to remind you, that of the Government allowance for contin- 

 gencies of the Museum, whatever can be saved, I am applying gradually to the pur- 

 chase of the necessary books, and that the Laboratory series both the Society's own 

 departments of Geology and Mineralogy as well as the Museum of Economic Geology. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your obedient Servant, 

 Calcutta, the 3rd July, 1844. Henry Piddington, 



Curator Museum Economic Geology, 

 and Geological and Mineralogical Department. 



Resolved. — That the necessary purchases for the Laboratory as explain- 

 ed in the lists accompanying the letter,* be authorized to the amount 

 stated. 



Read the following Letters from Messrs. W. and H. Allen and Co., the 

 Society's Booksellers and Agents: — 



Henry Piddington, Esq. Assistant Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, — We have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th February, 

 enclosing letters for the Vice-Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 



* Which it is not worth while to print. 



