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which by the way would be volatilised in the heat required to smelt 

 iron, but the sulphuret of iron which it contains, and the only chance of 

 producing passable iron from the ore would be (perhaps) careful roast- 

 ing of it ; an expense which it would not support ; I say, perhaps, not 

 having seen the ore, for pounding and washing might with some earthy 

 iron ores answer and leave the pyrites behind. And from some of the 

 more compact and metallic kinds roasting would not separate the sul- 

 phur. Col. Ouseley has forwarded us a brick and a fragment from 

 the Ramgurh temple of Sirgoojahbut I have no farther notice of it than 

 the name. 



Zoological Department. — Mr. Blyth's Report. 

 The following are the donations which I have now the pleasure to acknow- 

 ledge : — 



1. From G. T. Lushington, Esq. of Almorah. A fine male of the Tibetan 

 (slightly aberrant) Gazelle recently described by Mr. Hodgson by the name 

 Antilope {Procapra) picticaudata, in XV, 334. I have had it mounted, and 

 now exhibit it together with its female, presented on a former occasion by 

 Dr. Campbell. On looking over the large collection of original drawings of 

 animals, and of tracings of such, which I brought from England, I have 

 been gratified to find a tracing of Pallas's figure of his Ant. gutturosa j 

 from which I now feel satisfied that it is a distinct species from the Gazella 

 picticaudata, however close the affinity in various respects : but I must be 

 permitted to retain my expressed opinion that, until now, I could not have 

 felt justified in considering them as distinct. N. B. The same bare places on 

 the site of the sub-orbital sinuses are visible in the male specimen as in the 

 female ; as if a rudiment of such an organ had existed in the recent subject. 



2. From Major Jenkins, Pol. Agent at Gowhatti — The skeleton of a 

 Leopard, and skins of the 'Bhaloo-soor and of Sciurus bicolor j also the 

 imperfect skin of a Pangolin. 



3. From Capt. Rollo, 50th Madras N. I. — Specimens of the Schizodac- 

 tylus monstrosus, and of its larva, preserved in spirit, from Vizagapatam. 



4. From Major Ouseley, of Chota Nagpur — A skin and two perfect 

 skeletons of male Gaours [Bos gaurus). 



5. From Mr. Warden, of the Pilot service — A fine specimen of a Shark, 

 being a second and new species of the genus Stegostoma, hitherto only repre- 

 sented by the 'Zebra Shark' of authors, No. XVIII of Russell's ' Fishes of the 

 Coromandel coast.' It may be described as — 



St. carinatum, nobis, (PI. XXV, fig. 1). Structure typical. Remarkable for a 

 series of ridges studded with enlarged scales (vide fig. 1, a), the most prominent 

 of which commences abruptly on the vertex towards the occiput, and is conti- 



