lxxxiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Aug. 1845. 



The Secretary presented on the part of the Rev. M. Barbe, Mission- 

 ary, a paper on the hill tribes in the interior of Chittagong, which he 

 proposed to print at an early date. 



Report of the Curator Geological and Mineralogical Department, and Mu- 

 seum of Economic Geology for the months of June and July. 

 Geological and Mineralogical. 



We have to announce here a valuable series of eight papers on the Geology of 

 Southern India by our indefatigable contributor Captain Newbold. 



And these papers are the more valuable as they describe sections across the whole 

 Peninsula. I need not refer Geologists and scientific men in general to this gentleman's 

 papers already published in our Journal, that of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Madras 

 Literary Society, to give them an idea of the value of this contribution. We are pre- 

 paring the lithographic diagrams, and the papers will appear in regular succession in the 

 Journal. 



Lieut. Sherwill has also sent us a note, with two capital sketches of some very sin- 

 gular sandstone concretions near Sasseram, of which I have the pleasure to exhibit the 

 lithographs, which however, though the artist's drawing was good, have become some- 

 what confused in the printing and by no means do justice to Lieut. Sherwill's capital pen 

 and ink sketches. 



In pursuance of the suggestion made in my report, and approved by the Society, the 

 following letter has been addressed by our Secretary to the Private Secretary to the 

 Right Hon'ble the Governor General. It could not be sent in before, the map having 

 the been returned to Lieut. Sherwill to mark the heights, &c. 



The Private Secretary to the Right Hon'ble the Governor General. 



Sir,— I am desired by the Asiatic Society to request that you will be pleased to bring 

 specially to the notice of the Right Hon'ble the Governor General the highly meritori- 

 ous exertions of Lieut. W. S. Sherwill, 66th B. N. I. of the Revenue Survey ; that 

 gentleman having, in the intervals snatched from the very laborious duties of a Survey 

 officer, constructed a beautiful Geological map of the province of Behar and made a 

 valuable collection of 375 large specimens to illustrate it, together with a memoir, all of 

 which he has placed at the disposal of the Asiatic Society, which is farther indebted to 

 him for other communications and presentations, of minor but still of very considerable 

 importance. 



The Society believe that there is scarcely any instance yet on record of a public 

 officer adding so zealously and largely to his public duties, and so usefully advancing 

 our scientific knowledge of the district in which he is employed, and have thus they con- 

 ceive a pleasing duty to fulfil in respectfully bringing it to the notice of the Right Honor- 

 able the Governor General. Lieut. Sherwill's Geological map accompanies the present 

 for the inspection of the Right Honorable the Governor General, after which I have to 

 request its return. 



Museum, 26th July, 1845. H. Torrens, 



V. P. and Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



And the following reply has been received :— 



II. Torrens, Esq. Secretary, Asiatic Society. 

 >ir,— I am directed by the Governor General to acknowledge the receipt of your 



