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and get the votes of the members upon it. Lt. Burton tells me he has received a 

 letter from some gentleman (I forget his name) in charge of your Museum, asking 

 for specimens of the Scinde wolf, foxes, rare birds, fish and reptiles. I will so long 

 as I remain in Scinde take care that a duplicate collection of all specimens shall 

 be made by myself and people, the one set of which shall be forwarded to you, and 

 will write to our Secretary and request him to lay by all duplicate specimens that 

 he may receive for you." 



11 Should I remain in Scinde, which is doubtful, I shall be stationed at Sehwan, 

 where I hope to make some discoveries among the ruins or rather foundations of the 

 Old Fort. I have got a copy of some inscriptions in Arabic and Persian on some 

 stones found by Capt. Lavie, the Collector there, when digging a foundation for 

 some buildings ; the people say they are 600 years old, but as I believe Captain 

 Lavie intends sending or has sent a description and translation of the inscriptions 

 down to our Secretary, I need not forward mine to you, at least until I hear whe- 

 ther he has done so or not." 



"By the by, have not you published, or are publishing, the fish of the Indus 

 sketched and collected by Sir A. Burnes ? if so, what number have you got ? there 

 are an immense number and perhaps you have not all ; if you could furnish me with 

 a list of the Native names (I suppose Sir A. Burnes sent them), I should then know 

 whether any that I may collect would be worth sending to you or not." 



The Secretary presented, on the part of Edward Wyatt, Esq., Deputy 

 Collector, a Statistical Memoir of the district of Benares. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour the Report of the Curator 

 of the Museum of Economic Geology and Geological and Mineralogical 

 Departments was not read. 



The best thanks of the Society were voted for the various communi- 

 cations and presentations made. 



