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fully worthy of the patronage of the Society. Some Upanishads have been pub- 

 lished before, but neither a complete edition of this appeared nor one equal to tlic 

 subject. The Asiatic Society possesses some splendid MSS. of the text, with 

 the commentary of Sankaracharya and a gloss of Ananda Giri. The edition should 

 give the text with English translation, the commentary complete, and such portions 

 of the gloss as illustrate passages not sufficiently explained by the commentary, or 

 as establish another view of the text. 



It will be some satisfaction to me, and I believe also to the Society, if the part 

 of the Rig Veda which has been completed, be laid before the public, and I there- 

 fore propose to print it on my own responsibility by subscription, if the Society 

 enables me to do so by subscribing to a certain number of copies. I venture to 

 hope, that this proposition will meet with the approval of the Society, which will, 

 I am convinced, sympathize with my disappointment in having laboured many 

 months for an undertaking which must now be abandoned. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your most obedient Servant, 



E. Roer, 

 Co-Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



The Council proposed with reference to these communications, that the 

 Oriental Section he solicited to report upon the subject to the January 

 meeting, and that the portion of the Veda already edited by Dr. Roer, 

 be published with the Journal, as a specimen of the contemplated 

 Bengal edition, and at the expense of the Oriental Fund. This pro- 

 posal was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Piddington read a notice of the rolled balls of coal found in the 

 Burdwan mines, (to be inserted in the Journal.) He also exhibited 

 specimens of Galena presented by Capt. Sherwill from the south of 

 Bhagulpore, and a model of a large diamond in the possession of the 

 Nizam, a notice of which will appear in an early number of the Jour- 

 nal. 



Report of the Curator Museum of Economic Geology for the Month of November. 

 Geology and Minerology. — I have put into the form of a paper for the Jour- 

 nal the results of the examination of a specimen of Ball coal from the Burdwan 

 Mines which we obtained with the series of specimens from that quarter presented 

 to the Museum of Economic Geology by Mr. Williams, and these results are highly 

 curious as Geological data, for they seem to prove the existence of beds of coal of 

 the same cpiality as the present ones, but formed long before them and then broken 

 up and rolled by streams as boulders into the present deposits, whilst they were in 



