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arrangements were duly made.* The Acting Secretary was requested to 

 communicate officially with Major Troyer, on the subject of his letter, 

 after making due enquiries. 



Read the following letter from T. S. Stopford, Esq. accompanying the 

 handsome Donation to which it refers, and for which the best thanks of the 

 Society were voted, for his polite attention in supplying this blank in 

 the Museum. 



Chandpore, Diamond Harbour Road, 2nd January, 1843. 



My dear Sir, — Mr. Higginson tells me, that the Asiatic Society is in want of a 

 good specimen of a Wild Boar. 



By the bearers I send one 1 killed yesterday, than which I have seldom seen a finer. 

 He was a famous one too, having been hunted last year several times by the " Tent 

 Club," without success, and became the terror of the villages about this place. 



If it could be stuffed, it would be better than a skeleton, and ticket it, " Presented 

 to the Asiatic Society's Museum in behalf of the " Tent Club," and killed by 

 J. S. Stopford, 2nd January, 1843." I remain, Dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



J. S. Stopford. 



The following list of articles presented to the Society by Lieut. W. S. 

 Sherwill, 66th Regt. N. I. Revenue Survey, Gya, was read. They will 

 be found referred to more particularly in the Zoological Curator's report. 



List of Specimens presented to the Asiatic Society's Museum. By Lieutenant 

 Walter S. Sherwill. 



One Horn of South African black Rhinoceros. R. Africanus. 



One ditto, polished. 



One pair of Horns of Male Hartebeest. Damalis Canna. 



One pair of Horns of Male Bontibok. Gazella Pygarga. 



One Skull of Ethiopian Hog, Sus Larvatus, from Port Natal, South Africa. 



One lower Jaw of Hippopotamus. 



One pair of Horns of Roee Rhiebok, Redunca Villosa. 



Two Tusks from lower Jaw of Hippopotamus, (S. Africanus.) 



One strip of Hide from Hippopotamus, of which are manufactured the Cape " Sam- 

 boks," or Whips. 



Two Tusks of Hippopotamus, (lower jaw.) 



Two lower projecting circular Tusks or Rooters of the same animal and individual; 

 killed at Port Natal. 



One Skull of Hyrax, or Rock Rabbit, from the summit of the Spitzkopf Mountain, the 

 highest peak in S. Africa, height 10,250 feet above the sea, which is seen to the south 

 at the distance of 126 miles. 



Two Wooden Spoons of Hoolu manufactory. Tribe of King Moselekatse. 



One Horn of Springbok, Gazella Euchore. 



* Major Troyer's letters also stated, that the Societe Asiatique had not yet received the 4th Vol. 

 of the Mahabarata though dispatched long ago. 



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