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Supplementary Note to Mr. Commissioner Lushington's Report on 

 the Copper Mines of Kemaon and Ghurwal, Journal, p. 472. 



Since the above report was submitted to Government in 1841, 

 I have had the pleasure of meeting and forming the acquaintance of 

 Captain Drummond, (late one of the Cabool hostages,) to whom allusion 

 is made in the first part of the report, as having suggested the 

 experimental working of the Pokree mine. Captain Drummond's 

 opinion is, I believe, still favourable to further experiments being 

 made in the Kemaon and Ghurwal mines under European superin- 

 tendence, and as he has seen and examined all the papers connected 

 with Mr. Wilkin's operations, and knows much more of these matters 

 than I can pretend to do, his opinion is likely to be more correct 

 than mine. 



As connected with Mr. Wilkin, there is one important omission in 

 my report, which in justice to him I would wish to supply. I allude 

 to his uniformly kind and conciliating treatment of the Natives, and to 

 the fact of my never having had a single complaint preferred to me by 

 any of them, in the least affecting his character, from the time of 

 his location at Pokree to the date of his departure from the province. 



Almora, 29th August, 1843. G. S. Lushington. 



Note on a Fossil Antelope, from the Dadoopoor Museum. By Capt. 

 W. E. Baker, Bengal Engineers. 



We have had great pleasure in doing full justice, as far as our humble efforts 

 could do so, to this highly interesting notice, in procuring the aid of the best artist 

 in' Calcutta, who, our readers may be assured, has given a most exact/ac simile of 

 Captain Baker's capital pen and ink drawing.— Eds. 



Among the notices of the Sub- Himalayan fossils which have 

 from time to time appeared in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, but 

 few have been devoted to the remains of Ruminantia. The Sivathe- 

 rium indeed was one of the first described, and the Camelidae subse- 

 quently formed the subject of a paper by Capt. Cautley and Dr. 

 Falconer; but the various species of Bos, Cervus, Antelope. &c. which 



