1018 Asiatic Society. [No. 143. 



Also the following from the Secretary to the Government of Bengal: — 



No. 2291. 



From Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Secretary to the Asiatic 

 Society, dated Fort William, 2nd October, 1843. 

 Marine. 



Sib, — I am directed to transmit to you copies of the Meteorological Registers kept 

 at Penang, for the months of April, May, June and July last. I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



Cecil Beadon, 

 Under Secy, to the Govt, of Bengal. 



The following Letter from Captain Jacob, Bombay Army, was read : — 



My dear Sir, — t perceive by a letter from Mr. Piddington to the Bombay Asiatic 

 Society, published in its last No., that your Museum of Economic Geology is desirous 

 of information as to ores, mines, &c. on our side of India; I enclose therefore a reporton 

 the iron of the Guzerat Peninsula, published I believe by the Committee of the London 

 Society, which devotes itself to inquiry into and improvement of our Indian resources, to 

 whom it was sent from Bombay, but what became of the specimens that accompanied 

 it, given to our Bombay Geological Society, I know not ; if these are desiderates, I 

 can easily supply a fresh collection on my return. 



From my long silence, 1 fear you will have thought me very ungrateful for your 

 Journal duly received. Last month I sent you a budget on the Girnar Inscriptions, 

 which I trust has reached ; intense official occupation, (in Kattywar we have two men 

 to look after twenty-two thousand square miles,) and severe illness, have stood in the 

 way of my usefulness; the first cause has ceased, but the other remains. 



Yours, my dear Sir, very truly, 



Ootacamund, Uth November, 1843. E. Jacobs. 



Read the following from Captain Hannyngton, Purulia, addressed to the Sub- 

 Secretary. 



My dear Sir, — I am extremely obliged to you for the trouble you have taken 

 about the Mortality Table, and also for the perusal of Major Henderson's valuable 

 Paper, which I return by this day's post. 



If you can procure, and will publish, Mr. Prinsep's Table, the purpose for which I 

 wanted it will be fully served. 



I send you a Memorandum, which 1 have drawn up respecting Mortality among the 

 Military. There are a few Tables to which I have prefixed a few explanatory remarks. 

 I have abstained from any practical deductions, as they would hardly fall in with the 

 scientific nature of your Journal, in which perhaps you may think fit to publish them. 

 Should the Paper as it is, be thought unsuitable, you may reject it without ceremony. 



I am, my dear Sir, 



Purulia, October 5, 1843. Yours very truly, 



J. Hannyngton. 



Captain Hannyngton's very valuable Tables will be printed in the Journal, and in 

 an early number. 



