1840.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 181 



Tatwabodhini Patrika, No. 66. — By the Tatwabodhini Sabha. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for 

 the month of December, 1848. — By the Deputy Surveyor General. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 15. — By the Society. 



Map of the district of Shahabad, (16 sheets). — By the Government of 

 Bengal. 



Map of the district of Behar, surveyed by Capt. H. V. Stephen, 19th Regt. 

 N. I. and Lieut. W. S. Sherwill, 66th Regt. N. I. in seasons 1841-2-3-4.— By 

 the Government of Bengal. 



The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. XVI. part 2. — By the 

 Academy. 



Exchanged. 



The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, No. 220. 



Purchased. 



The Calcutta Review, No. XX. 



The Bhagavat Gita, or Dialogues of Krishna and Arjoona, in eighteen lectures 

 in Sanskrita, Canarese, and English. Edited by Rev. J. Garrett, Bangalore, 

 1846, 4to. 



The North British Review, No. XIX. 



Journal des Savants for September, 1848. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 11. 



Contes Rendus, Hebdomedaires des Seances .de l'Academie des Sciences, 

 Nos. 12—17. 



Report of the Curator Museum Economic Geology for the months of January 

 and February. 



Geological and Miner alogical. — I have received from Major Jenkins, Agent to 

 the Governor General in Assam, some notes of earthquakes in that district, which 

 I have put into a separate form for the Miscellaneous notices of the Journal, as 

 all these phcenomena should be carefully registered. 



Mr. T. B. Swinhoe has presented us with a box containing a large and very 

 valuable collection of rocks and minerals from Vesuvius, being upwards of 250 

 specimens, but unfortunately every label belonging to them has disappeared, so 

 that we have not the advantage of knowing their localities and the dates of the 

 eruptions ! Nevertheless they will supply us with many fine specimens, and with 

 the series aud remnants of collections we already have, and which I have carefully 

 collected, we shall be able to make up a fine series of volcanic rocks and 

 minerals. 



I have had the good fortune to discover in this collection a specimen of a 

 volcanic bomb which I think strongly, if not completely confirms my theory of 



