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that the Committee did no more than propose a course to he adopted 

 by the Society, without taking any actual measures themselves. 



After some discussion the subject dropped. 



Captain Marshall remarked on a certain entry in the proceedings of 

 May, 1845, as follows : 



"The Secretary brought forward a MS. Journal of Travels in the 

 Himalaya written by me in 1827, and a book of drawings which had 

 been sent to him for insertion in the Journal of this Society. The 

 Secretary remarked to the Meeting, that my Journal was of " a private 

 and domestic nature," and he further stated to the effect that the paper 

 had lost its interest from the long period which had elapsed since its 

 composition, and in consequence of other travellers having since passed 

 over the same ground. The Secretary then, after a short pause, and 

 without submitting my contribution for the orders of the meeting, pro- 

 ceeded to other business." 



Resolved that the Society put on record, that the expressions made 

 use of by the Secretary with respect to Capt. Marshall's paper are not 

 the sentiments of the Society, and they do not contain the opinion of 

 the Society as to its contents. 



The Secretary expressed his regret at having recorded in the pro- 

 ceedings his individual opinion of a Journal, as to which other and most 

 competent judges thought very differently, and which he did not at the 

 time know to be Capt. Marshall's. 



Report of the Curator Museum Economic Geology and Geological and Mine- 



ralogical departments. 



Geology and Mineralogy. 



The only contributions we have received this month have arrived too late for me to 



report upon them, having no letters or papers with them. The following letter from 



Lieut. Sherwill has just been received. 



To H. Piddington, Esq. Curator to Museum Economic Geology, Calcutta. 

 My dear Piddington, — I write these few lines to inform you of the despatch per 

 steamer of a small box containing specimens of a very pretty variety of kunkur, from 

 the district of Benares, containing about fifty per cent, of fresh water shells, from an 

 inch and a half in length to those of a microscopic smallness. I have only been able out 

 of many thousands, to detect more than 5 kinds, all of which are of fresh water origin, 

 exceedingly brittle, but beautifully perfect, evidently the deposit of an extensive lake, 

 long since filled up, as they lie 20 feet below the soil. For the following description 

 of locality, &c. I am indebted to my friend, Mr. George Wyatt, Deputy Collector of 

 Benares. 



