1843.] Asiatic Society. 255 



an analysis, I believe, to one of the Societies at home ; but it had not been 

 published at the time of my hurried departure from England. Professor 

 Royle placed it in Mr, Solly's hands. 



I was very much struck with the resemblance which the Regur soil that 

 covers the plateaux of the Deccan bears to specimens of the " Chorai 

 Zem" which Mr. Murchison brought with him from Russia, and which 

 covers the Steppes of that country in a precisely similar manner. 



The similarity also struck Mr. Lonsdale, the late talented Secretary 

 of the Geological Society, who was also present at the Meeting when Mr. 

 Murchison read his paper on the Geology of Russia in the last year. 



Believe me, 



Your's very truly, 



T. J. Newbold. 



We have here to announce the recovery of the Catalogue of Captain 



, , Pemberton's Bootan specimens, which it will be re- 



Mineraiogy and 



Geology. collected from my reports, had been sent to us by 



General McLeod, but without any Catalogue ; this I have at length succeed- 

 ed by his assistance in tracing out. The following is an extract from his 

 private letter : — 



" London, 5, Manchester Square, Christmas Day, 1842. 



My dear Piddington, — I had the pleasure of writing to you on the 

 30th ultimo, and then promised that I should write again, after Mrs. 

 Pemberton and I should have an opportunity of looking into poor Pem- 

 berton's Journals, and T am happy to say, that we then discovered what 

 we hope may prove useful in enabling you to carry out your views, regard- 

 ing the collection I sent you, although the information appears rather 

 meagre. 



" As Mrs. Pemberton was so much better acquainted with his hand-writing 

 than I am, she undertook to copy out all that we could discover on the 

 subject, and when we were doubtful of the words, from our ignorance 

 of Geology, she has underlined them ; but she believes she made out 

 almost ail correctly. At all events, I have no doubt you will be able to 

 clear up what may have appeared doubtful to us. We could discover 

 nothing further than No. 138, nor could we find any Geological notes 

 separate from this list. Enclosed you have Mrs. Pemberton's copy of 

 the list, and it will afford us much pleasure to hear that it proves in any 

 degree useful." 



We have thus restored this very valuable collection to our Museum, 

 and I have the pleasure to add, that we have also a complete set of 

 duplicates of it, which will be packed for dispatch to the Honorable the Court 

 of Directors. 



In the course of my correspondence on the subject of Storms, during 

 the past month I received from Mr. Howe, Marine Assistant to the 

 Commissioner at Akyab, the following curious account of an eruption 

 of one of their little volcanoes : — 



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