PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For October, 1850. 



The usual monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society was held 

 in its Rooms, on the 2nd instant, at half-past 8 p.m. 



Welby Jackson, Esq,, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Read letters — 



1st. From W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal, forwarding, for the use of the Museum of Economic 

 Geology, a Map of the Cuttack district. 



2nd. From Sir II. M. Elliot, Secretary to the Government of India 

 with the Governor General, transmitting, for publication in the Society's 

 Journal, a Statistical Report on the Spiti Valley together with a sketch 

 Map drawn up by Capt. W. E. Hay, Assistant Commissioner in Kulu. 



Ordered — that the thanks of the Society be conveyed to the Most 

 Noble the Governor General for the report. 



3rd. From Dr. G. Buist, Bombay, enclosing a paper on the gene- 

 ral vibration or descent and upheaval, which seems, at a recent geolo- 

 gical period, to have occurred all over the northern Hemisphere. 

 Ordered for publication in the Journal. 



4th. From W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal, presenting two copies of a Map of Arabia for the use 

 of the Society's Library. 



5th. From Capt. J. C. Hannyngton, Chota Nagpur, forwarding a 

 note to be appended to the Barometrical Tables, lately presented by 

 him to the Society. 



