1843.] Asiatic Society. 921 



storm. If you could get wood-cuts made at Calcutta, such diagrams would, I think, 

 improve your papers. 



There can be no doubt, as you shew, that some of the Storms as they pass over the 

 China Sea, have sometimes a course to the Southward of West. At first I thought 

 the Storm of each of the ships called Thetis must be but one storm : but after attentive 

 study, 1 am more inclined to agree with you and with you r paper, which throughout 

 bears the impression of attentive consideration. I hope you will be able to go on, 

 and be supported in your endeavours to develop this great subject as regards the 

 Indian Seas. I do not doubt that you will be assisted by the Governor of Hong-Kong 

 and the British Government Agents in China, and shall consider whether any recom- 

 mendation from me can help to procure such aid for you, not from the intrinsic worth 

 of any recommendation of mine, but of the value of the subject, and the importance 

 of it in saving life and property. 



Here the Admiral on this station, Sir Charles Adam, is giving us great assistance 

 by requiring ail the squadron under his command to improve the mode of keeping 

 the log books, and helping in what he can to track the gales. One Storm we have 

 followed from the West Indies nearly across the American continent, at least to the 

 mountain ridge beyond "Victoria in Mexico. 



I do not recollect that I sent you a copy of the enclosed printed note.—" On sailing 

 on curved Courses when meeting with revolving winds," which has been printed 

 three times over. J. hope soon to receive some other tract from you. Believe me, 



Yours, &c. 

 Government House, Bermuda, 23d June, 1843. (Signed) W. Reid. 



Read the following Report from the Curator Museum Economic Geology, 

 for the months of August and September. 



During the month of August, illness having prevented my preparing a report, the present one 

 will comprise both mpnths. 



Museum Economic Geology. 



Our first contribution here is a truly valuable one from Mr. Homfray, to whom the Journal is in- 

 debted for a valuable paper on the coal mines of the Damoodah District, in 26 specimens from the 

 Amanath and others of the Palamow Coal Fields, comprising specimens of the strata (in one 

 instance to the granite) and of various trap dykes of the greatest geological and mining interest. 

 Mr. Homfray 's letter is as follows : — 



H. Piddington, Esa. 



My dear Sir,— I have now the pleasure to forward for the acceptance of the Asiatic Society 

 for their Museum of Economic Geology, a set of specimens of the strata in the Amanath Coal Field 

 of Palamow District, as also some others from the Palamow Coal Field, together as per list annexed. 



I have also sent some of the principal specimens of the sandstone rock which I have hitherto 

 met in sinking my deep pit at Salmah, now, August 1843, down as low as 275 feet, having passed 



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