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Language. He also exhibited the charts to his Eighth Memoir on the Law 

 of Storms, (the Madras and Arabian Sea Hurricane of October 1842,) now 

 in the Press. 



The Librarian presented the classified catalogue of the European Books 

 in the Society's Library, which is now printed, and for distribution to 

 Members. 



Mr. Blyth presented remarks on the Zoology of the Tenasserim Pro- 

 vinces, which will be farther alluded to in his report. 



Read the report of the Curator Museum Economic Geology for June. 



Report of the Curator Museum of Economic Geology for the Month of June. 



Geological and Miner alogical. — We have received here, through Messrs. Allan, 

 Patton and Co. from Major Sleeman, as executor to the estate of the late Dr. Spry, 

 three mahogany cases, containing a considerable number of Geological and Mineralogi- 

 cal specimens, with a few corals, &c. some of these are in a state of sad disorder from 

 being separated from their labels or envelopes, and evidently tossed about in utter 

 confusion. I shall however be able, I hope, to verify the localities of most of the Geo- 

 logical specimens. None of these are complete series or collections, (with the excep- 

 tion of a small set of specimens from the Fort boring,) but a number are rare; many 

 will fill up blanks in our cabinets, or replace inferior specimens, and are thus most ac- 

 ceptable to us. 



I have now finished collecting from the Hoogly opposite to Calcutta, and from 

 Burrisal at the other extremity of the Delta, two bottles of water for each month 

 in the year, to ascertain the quantity of silt brought down by the river. I propose, 

 with the approbation of the Society, forwarding one set of these to the Geological So- 

 ciety, with a request, that part of the silt may be sent to Professor Ehrenberg for exa- 

 mination as to the infusoria which it may contain; a question of very high interest to 

 us here, as well as to the scientific world at home. 



1 mentioned in my preceding Reports, that through Mr. Howe's kindness, we had 

 been provided with a large assortment of the shales and mud thrown up by the Vol- 

 cano of Ramree ; these I have divided into eight handsome sets, as follows : — 



Memorandum of specimens from the Mud Volcano of Kyook Phyoo, collected imme- 

 diately after its remarkable eruption of midnight 6th and 7th February, 1843. 

 A.' — A bottle of the mud taken in a boiling state from the crater. 

 B. — Half calcined mud, taken from the walls of the crater. 

 N. B. — In some of these specimens, fruits and seeds of the surrounding bushes 

 are found half burnt, but not destroyed. 



C. — Mud from the neighbourhood of the crater, ejected from it in the eruption. 



D. — The same with grass, &c. enveloped in it. 



E. — Mud indurated to shale, with veins of porcellanous (aluminous'?) earth and 

 calc spar ejected from the crater. 



N. B. — Thin plates of this calc spar found amongst the mud; the largest in 

 the Museum of the Society being about 6 inches by 4, and evidently detached from 

 the shale. 



