1887.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 1099 



Mr. C. F. Trevelyan, presented in the name of Munshi Mohun La'L, 

 a notice of the Daudputras ; also, an account of Kdld Bdgh, and of Baha'- 



WAL Kha'n. 



Mr. Wathen communicated from Ensign Postans, some extracts fro 

 the Tohfatal Khwdm, relative to the history of Sinde. 



Physical. 



Replies to the circular regarding- Indian lichens were received from Dr. 

 Baikie, Dr. Griffith, and Lieut. Harrington, the latter with specimens. 



Specimens of the genuine Jatamdsi (spikenard of the ancients) were 

 presented by Dr. A. Campbell, Acting Resident Nipal, with drawing and 

 remarks on the subject of Sir William Jones' paper. 



Fossil shells (on very large ammonite) and volcanic minerals from the 

 Chart hills, Cutch, were presented by Ensign Postans. 



Mr. Homfray, presented the carcass of a white guinea fowl. 



Mr. Ewin (through the Honorable Col. Morison) forwarded a variety 

 of shark found at the Sandheads. 



Dr. R. Tytler, presented a fragment of magnetic ironstone with 

 remarks on the nature of the lines of polarization thereon. 



Col. Burney presented part of the lower jaw of a fossil hippopotamus 

 (the only one yet found) from a new fossil site in Ava. 



A drawing of this fragment, which exactly accords with the hippopotamus 

 of the Siwaliks having six equal incisors, shall be given hereafter. Col. Burney 

 writes : — 



" I have the pleasure to send for your inspection a fossil, apparently the lower 

 jaw of a hippopotamus, which was given to me by the prince of Mekkhara, and 

 said to have been found, not near the Petroleum Wells, but more to the north- 

 ward, on a new site on the opposite side of the Erawadi, to the westward of a 

 range of hills called by the Burmese Tang-gyi, and in our maps Ddng-gyi, and 

 on a plain near the city of Yau kyakhat, the ' Yo or Kakiap' of our maps, and 

 the Jaghire of the old Kyi- Wungyih. 



Hearing that there were other fossil remains at this spot, and particularly the 

 whole body of the animal from which this lower jaw was taken, I had obtained 

 the permission of the late Government of Ava to send down a party of my fol- 

 lowers to examine the spot and bring away all the treasures they could find ; but 

 the breaking out of the revolution put a stop to my expedition, and although th« 

 present king of Ava afterwards promised to order some of these fossil remains to 

 be brought up for me, he has been too much engaged, I fear, to recollect his 

 promise. I believe this is the first portion of a hippopotamus found in Burmah. 

 The inhabitants of Yau and the Burmese in general reversed this lower jaw, and 

 insisted upon it that it was the upper jaw of a bhilu or monster." 



Mr. Kittoe presented geological specimens from Cuttack, supposed to 

 indicate coal — among them a black chalk fit for crayon drawings. 



Extract of a letter from Mr. Taylor, H. C. astronomer Madras, was 

 read, explaining that he had been engaged in observations of the magnetic 

 intensity along the coast of the peninsula east and west of Cape Comorin. 



The instruments are now with Mr. Caldecott who will continue the series 

 from Trevandrum to Tellicherry and Bombay. The observations will be pub- 

 lished in a pamphlet whea completed. Mr. Taylor's Madras Observatory papers 

 for 1836-37, vol. IV. are now in the press. 



The meeting then proceeded to discuss the tender of Mr. Evans' collec- 

 tion of Natural History, when it was resolved that before coming to any 

 determination the Committee of Papers be requested to examine and 

 value the collection and report on the expediency of recommending its 

 purchase to Government. 



