xxii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. £Feb. 1845. 



vers producteurs, c'est vrai, d'un tissu soierie qui n'est pas fin, mais qui peut etre utile 

 a certaines manufactures. L'education ailleurs de ces vers se ferait dans notre province 

 dans un tems presque tout a fait libre d'autres travaux agricoles. C'est pourtant a la 

 Societe Asiatique qu'on oses'adresser pour avoir les nouveaux ceufs, et on espere qu' 

 elle acueillera cette priere avece le meme interet, qu'elle donne aux progres des sciences 

 dans les vastes etablissement Brittaniques, en Asie, qu'elle nous fait connoitre sous tous 

 le rapports. L' amour du savoir, et le noble plaisir des repandre les connoissances 

 utiles, rapprochent les plus grandes distances, et font une seule famille parmi ceux qui 

 sont capables de viser a l'un et de gouter l'autre. Si jamais cette academie pouvait 

 etre honoree de quelque commission par un Societe dont elle reconnait la superiority, 

 elle en serait non seulement reconnoissante mais orgueilleuse. 



Le Secretaire perpetuel, 

 Jean Comte Scopoli ; Jadis Conseiller d' etat, 

 Veronne, le 10 Aout, 1838. et directeur general de I' instruction publique, 



dans le Royaume d' Italic 



Read the following — 



Reportof the Curator, Museum of Economic Geology, and Geological and 

 mlneralogical departments, for the month of january, 184»5. 



Captain J. H. Low, B. N. I., has presented us with some fine specimens of lava 



and capillary obsidian, and some of sulphur from the 

 Mineralogical and Geological. . .. 



volcano ot Killauea* in the Island of Hawaii, and some 



volcanic specimens from Manilla: his letter is as follows :— 



H. PlDDlNGTON, Esq. 



My dear Sir, — I beg to present to the Asiatic Society the following specimens 

 brought from the grand volcano of Killauea in the Island of Hawaii, four pieces of la- 

 va, six pieces of sulphur, and some capillary glass; also two tapas or native cloths, and 

 a skull of some animal which I picked up at the spot where the bones of the celebrat- 

 ed navigator Capt. Cook were buried, being about one mile from the spot where he was 

 killed. Should you wish for it, I can send you some specimens collected by me at the 

 volcano> in the lake de Taal de Bonbon, in Luconia, about 50 miles from Manilla. It 

 may be interesting, sending a small bit of the rock on which Cook fell at Korakaruah 

 Bay, which I broke off. Had you not access to better information relating to the 

 Sandwich Islands than I could give, I should be happy to give my mite. 

 No. 5, Garstin's Buildings, 16th January. J. H. Low. 



My dear Sir, — I have the pleasure to send you some specimens from Manilla, or 

 rather the large piece 1 picked up in an extinct crater, which is at present a small 

 lake, close on the margin of the great lake in Luconia. The spot on which I picked 

 up this specimen, is a lake evidently filled from the great lake ; it occupies the 

 sunken summit of the hill, densely clothed with timber, only one mile from the hot 

 bath, which 1 found on keeping the Therm, for sometime in it to rise to 170° Faht. 



The smaller specimens I collected at the volcano in the Island in the lake de Taal 

 de Bonbon. The ignorance of the people in Manilla was such that they wanted to 

 * Killauea in MSS. No doubt Kirauea of Mr. Ellis and other travellers.-- H. P. 



