1847.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 599 



Public Department. 

 No. 5 of 1847. 

 Our Governor General of India in Council. 

 1. Our attention having been directed to the contributions which have 

 been made to our Museum in this House by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and 

 particularly to the collections received in this country during the last five years* 

 we desire to acknowledge the friendly co-operation of the Society in further- 

 ance of one of the chief designs of our Museum, viz. the establishment in 

 certain departments of a complete series of subjects illustrative of the Zoology 

 of India. The collections which we have thus received and which with some 

 others have been the results of public missions on behalf of Government, have 

 supplied to the Museum most of the common subjects of Indian Ornithology, 

 and specimens in other departments of Zoology, but in order to carry out the 

 design, it is highly desirable that specimens of new subjects as they may be 

 discovered and collected should be furnished to us without delay. 



In expressing as we now direct you to do our acknowledgments to the 

 Asiatic Society, for the valuable additions which from time to time have been 

 made to our Museum through their instrumentality, and which are highly 

 creditable to the Society's officers, it is our wish that you should bring to the 

 notice of the President and Council of the Society, the importance which we 

 attach to the early contribution to our Museum of newly discovered subjects 

 illustrative of the Natural History of India, and upon this point we would refer 

 you to our despatch of the 18th September, 1839, on the occasion of the pro* 

 vision by the Court of a salary for the Curator of the Calcutta Museum, 



We are, &c. 

 London, Iftk Feb. 1847. 



(True Copy) 



G. A. Bushby, 

 Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



From the Secretary to Superintendent of Marine with Meteorological 

 Register kept at Kyook Phoo for March. 



From Lieut. Thuillier, Officiating Deputy Surveyor General, with Me- 

 teorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's office, Calcutta, for 

 March. 



From the Secretary to the Military Board requesting information 

 regarding the Timber Trees of Bengal. The subject was referred, on 

 the recommendation of the Committee of Papers, to Captain Munro> 

 who was solicited to report upon it through the Committee. 



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