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and was unburnt and mixed with chipped straw and was most probably 

 of the same kind, though it may not have been the same, which the 

 Israelites were forced to make. I thought, under such circumstances, it 

 might have a slight value in the rooms of the Asiatic Society." 



I have added to the collection of soils a very rare one here, the brick 

 red soil of Bermuda, obtained from the lower part of a box of plants 

 sent to me from that Island. 



To the division of building and ornamental materials I have also 

 added specimens of the common grey and the yellow Chunar sand- 

 stones, and of two kinds of trap, grey and buff-coloured, sent to the 

 Auckland Testimonial Committee from Bombay. 



Geological and Miner alogical collections. 



I have several contributions in both departments, but they have un- 

 fortunately only come in too late to be examined (which many of the 

 specimens require) before reporting on them, and I have other work in 

 hand in the laboratory. 



We have received from Colonel Ouseley a specimen of Fibrous Carbo- 

 nate of Lime obtained in the district of Nagpore, under the following 

 circumstances detailed by him. — " Near where I was encamped, is a 

 village named Rutha, with a hill of considerable height called * Raj- 

 poora ;' a land slip took place the rains before last, and a small stream 

 emerged from the bottom of the slip. In this, and in a great chasm, 

 these stones are found ; they are to be had in any quantity." 



As above stated the specimen is a very common mineral, but its 

 matrix is curious as approaching more nearly to an impure chalk than 

 any thing we usually meet with in India. I sent a small sample to 

 Dr. Cantor, requesting he would examine it for infusoriee, but he in- 

 forms me it does not contain any. 



I am enabled to fill up a blank in our Mineralogical collection by a 

 specimen of Atacamite, which (and this is an instance of how frequently 

 valuable specimens are lost in India even in the hands of those who 

 know their value), I found amongst a number of refuse and common 

 minerals from my own collections. 



We have to acknowledge also from E. Lindstedt, Esq. a fossil fruit 

 (siliceous) from the coast of Abyssinia, of which the following is the 

 memorandum furnished by Cap!. Hodges to him : -" The stone I gave 



