1837.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 897 



These Journals contain minute and beautifully executed drawings of all the 

 temples and antiquities met with on his route, with all the information on every 

 subject he was enabled to pick up. His visit to Bhobaneswar and to the Khangiri 

 hills have formed the subject of separate memoirs. 



Physical. 



Mr. Secretary Mangles presented on the part of the Right Honorable 

 the Governor of Bengal, a copy of Dr. Richardson's journal of his late visit 

 to the Shan frontier in Moulmein, in two parts. 



Mr. Jules Des Jardins presented 7th Report and Resume' of Meteorolo- 

 gical observations made by the Natural History Society of the Mauritius. 



Dr. W. Bland gave a note on Mr. Hodgson's description of the Nipal 

 woodpeckers. 



Colonel McLeod brought to the meeting several more fragments of 

 fossil bone from the fort boring now at 423 feet. 



One a small caudal vertebra of a lacerta animal ? the rest testudinous. The 

 kankar pebbles and quartz and felspar gravel accompanying them are increasing 

 in size and bear the appearance of having been rolled. 



Mr. C. B. Greenlaw presented on the part of Mr. Alfred Bond, Mas- 

 ter Attendant at Balasore, a series of tide registers at Bulrdmghari in full 

 for the year, 1834. 



Read a letter from Dr. T. Cantor, presenting a catalogue of serpents 

 and fish in the Society's museum. 



Resolved that especial thanks be returned to Dr. Cantor for the valu- 

 able service he has rendered to the Society in arranging and classifying 

 these objects. 



The Secretary proposed talcing advantage of Dr. Cantor's departure for Eng- 

 land by the Perfect, to request his kindness in conveying a case of the dupli- 

 cates of the Society's collection of snakes for presentation to the museum of 

 the Honorable Company. 



He would also recommend that one of the elephants and rhinoceros' skulls 

 should be entrusted to Dr. Cantor with a view of presentation to any museum 

 whence he may be able to obtain in exchange some osteological specimens for our 

 museum, not procurable in India. 



Dr. Cantor had kindly undertaken to convey a series of our fluviatile shells 

 to Professor Von dem Busch of Bremen and other parcels for the continent. 



These recommendations were adopted. 



The Secretary obtained sanction for purchase of 31 objects of natural 

 history prepared by M. Monteiro and yarnished — at 31 rupees. 



Mr. Shaw, 3rd officer of the Ernaad presented a tetradon, a remosa, and 

 some insects from the Persian Gulf. 



Dr. McCosh presented the skeleton of a Tapir which he had commis- 

 sioned from Malacca. 



The skeleton had unfortunately been ruined by an unskilful hand — the whole 

 animal having been chopped up butcher- wise to be packed in a cask — in spirits — 

 but the head and some bones were uninjured. 



Read the following letter from Lieut. Tho.mas Hutton, 37th N. I. 

 dated Simla, 27th August and 4th September. 



Simla, 27th August, 1837. 

 Sir, 



At a time when the attention of the Scientific bodies of Europe, is turned to 

 the valuable discoveries of our fossilists in the Sub- Himalayan ranges, it may not 

 be thought impertinent in me, to suggest that the disaovery made some years 



