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the Journal, as these phenomena are of special interest at home on many accounts, and 

 our Aerolite is of a very rare kind. 



I mentioned in my former report, that we had written to the Collector of Candeish, 

 requesting his assistance in procuring further information of the Aerolite, and more 

 specimens if obtainable. I have now the pleasure of submitting his reply, which is as 

 follows. The report will be incorporated with my paper. 



H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary and Vice-President, Asiatic Society. 



Sir,— I have now the pleasure to comply as far as in my power lies, with the request 

 contained in your letter of the 23rd November last, and to send you five pieces of the 

 Aerolite to which you allude, with a statement from the parties who witnessed the 

 fall of it. 



If in this or any other matter 1 can be of service by furnishing information, or other- 

 wise forwarding the views of your Society, 1 beg you will freely command me. 



Candeish, June 6, 1845. J. M. Bell, 



Collector of Candeish. 



P. S. — The fragments of the Aerolite have been sent by bangy post; I shall be 

 glad to hear that you have received them, and that they are of sufficient size to be of 

 value. 



Captain Latter, 67th B. N. I. has presented us with a very beautiful collection of mi- 

 nerals, being 128 good sized specimens and from first-rate dealers, (Mawe or Tennant ?) 

 some of which will be handsome additions to our cabinet, and others serve to replace 

 inferior specimens or to shew varieties. Captain Latter has added to this very hand- 

 some donation a considerable number of Geological and Mineralogical specimens 

 from Algeria ; including some of copper, from the lodes now working on the flanks of 

 the lesser Atlas by the French ! and fossils, &c. from the desert between Suez 

 and Cairo. 



We should also place on record the following extract of a polite letter from Capt. 

 Baker, B. E., to whom I have written to say that we should be most obliged by any 

 thing from such a locality. 



Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. 



Dear Sir, 



1 passed through Calcutta lately on my return from Scinde, and had hoped to pre- 

 sent to the Society some geological specimens from that country ; unfortunately, how- 

 ever, my baggage had not arrived before I was obliged to leave, and it may even be 

 sometime before I have an opportunity of sending them. 



On the arrival of my baggage, you will however receive two small boxes of fossils 

 from Lieut. Blagrave of the Sinde Survey. 



28th December, 1844. W. E. Baker, Capt. Engineers. 



Museum of Economic Geology.— A specimen was handed to me at the meeting of 

 January, marked as " a species of Asphaltum from the bed of the Namsay river near 

 Jeypore, Upper Assam, presented by Mr. F. C. Marshall." It is unfortunately not 

 Asphaltum, which will be a great treasure wherever it is discovered in any accessible 

 locality in India, but cannel coal, apparently of a very fine quality. Our thanks are 

 nevertheless equally due to Mr. Marshall for his very kind attention, and we shall be 

 greatly obliged by specimens of everything he can send us; particularly if pitch-like or 



