1843.] Asiatic Society. 831 



Read an application from L. Wray, Esq. requesting the Society's patron- 

 age of a work now publishing by him, under the title of " The Sugar 

 Planter's Companion." It was considered by most of the members that this 

 subject was so peculiarly within the province of the Agricultural Society's 

 pursuits, that it might be better left wholly to that body. 



Read the following letter from Captain Tickell to the Secretary :— 



My dear Torrens, — I have the pleasure to send you a sketch of a curious kind of Tiger, made 

 from a skin obligingly lent me by Lieutenant Biddulph, one of the residents here. The sketch and 

 notes thereon I should wish to have published in the Journal, if they be thought worthy. And 

 when they are done with I beg they may be returned to me, for I have no copy by me for my 

 own collection. I hope this can be managed without trouble. S. R. Tickell. 



Darjeeling, 11th August, 1843. 



P.S.— When opportunity offers, I wish you would express my apologies to Mr. Piddington for 

 my not having answered his note, about the skulls of the different tribes in my part of India. It 

 reached me but an hour or two before I started for Darjeeling, and what with sickness and travelling, 

 I have had no opportunity for replying to him. I doubt whether skulls could be procured in 

 Singbhoom, as they are there exceedingly jealous about their dead, and burn the bodies to ashesi 

 bones and all. 



A lithographic proof of the drawing, which had been already prepared 

 for the Journal, was exhibited, and as the work of a native artist, its ex- 

 treme fidelity was much admired. 



Read the following extract of Letter from Dr. Campbell, Resident at 

 Darjeeling. 



H. Piddington, Esq. Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



I have sent you by to-day's Banghy, specimens* of the Rock Salt of Eastern Thibet, which is 

 brought here for sale by the Thibetans through the passes in the snowy range leading into Sikim. 

 I may forward a note of particulars regarding this article at some future time. When purified by 

 solution for recrystallisation, it is snowy white, and far superior for the table to the Indian salt. 

 The price here at present is 5 seers per rupee. Yours truly, 



Darjeeling, 1th August, 1843. A. Campbell. 



Read the following Letter from Capt. Hannington, addressed to the Sub- 

 Secretary :— 



H. Piddington, Esq., Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



My dear Sir, — In the Journal of the Asiatic Society, No. 65, for May 1837, 

 there is an article by Mr. H. T. Prinsep, on the mortality among members of the 

 Civil Service. The table prepared by him, is from its extreme accuracy very valu- 

 able ; but it would be still more so if brought up to the present time according to the 

 method he has pointed out. It is indeed probable, that the register has been kept 

 up, but I do not know by whom, or where to apply for information respecting it. 



I therefore take the liberty to ask your aid in procuring it. I am prosecuting 

 some inquiries of this nature, and the results if worth any thing, would be much at 



* No. 1. The red coloured salt. 



,, 2. The white crystals found in the former in the proportion of 5 per cent. 

 ,, 3. Bits of minerals found in the salt. 



