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the manner in which the puzzling foot-like appendage to our mass of meteoric 

 iron and to other aerolites may have been formed. I have put the details of this 

 into the form of a supplementary note for the Journal, with a sketch. 



From Mr. W. H. Sweedland we have received a miscellaneous collection of 

 rocks from Palamow and the stations on the Ganges. 



To Col. Low of Penang, we are indebted for two fine specimens of a shell 

 conglomerate, with one of a dark grey limestone and clay slate, but I have not got 

 any notice of the locality. 



Economic Geology. — With Mr. Swinhoe's collection of Vesuvian minerals 

 already mentioned we have also to acknowledge from that gentleman a specimen 

 of yellow enamelled plaster, and a fragment of brick, both from the walls of 

 Herculaneum, as also an ancient earthen lamp from the same place. 



I have obtained a splinter of the fine red Aberdeen granite of which the pedes- 

 tal to Lord Auckland's statue is made, and which was broken off one of the 

 inner basement stones on board the Marlborough. 



Lt. Haughten, B. N. I. has presented a very fine little crystallised diamond 

 from Sumbhulpore, with several specimens of rocks, containing minute portions 

 of copper from Chota Nagpore, but nothing worth attention farther than as an 

 indication that there may be veins. 



I have put into the form of a paper for the Journal my examination of some 

 coal from the ship Sir Howard Douglass, which was on the point of igniting 95 

 days after it had been wetted with salt water in consequence of the ship, which 

 was coal laden and bound to Bombay, having been thrown on her beam ends 

 in a hurricane, during which time the cargo shifted, and I have added specimens 

 of the coal, which is of a remarkably pyritous kind from the Priso Pit near 

 Newport in South Wales, to the collection of the Museum. 



