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



M i m ah Sm, I have the pleasure to send you three small cases of specimens ; that 

 lnnrked 6 is from the summit of the Sulloh mountain in Java, and the limestone therein 

 are from the Bird's-nest caves on the Bhyt Binning- estate, about seven miles from 

 Buitenzorg. No. 15 contains specimens gathered on the Masulipatam level between that 

 station and Vizag-apatam, and No. 21 is from the vicinity of Tennivilly (Purla) in the 

 Tanjong agency. I should have called myself, but I am too much pressed for time as the 

 ship sails this evening. 



J. C. Glover. 



July 23rd, 1845. Major, Madras Engineers. 



And though without any further references, (which is much to be regretted,) they are 

 still valuable and will offer a good selection. I may mention that in the Indian speci- 

 mens I have found a fine ore of Manganese, of which, though the locality is not named, 

 it may be discovered, and if near to Vizagapatam or Masulipatam, be worth exporting. 



Dr. Roer has obliged us with a small specimen of the stone of which the noted 

 pagodas of Tribenee, zillah Hooghly, are built. It is a dark basalt with abundant 

 crystals of olivine, and so nearly resembles the stone cannon-balls from the Telliaghurry 

 pass presented to the museum about two years ago by Mr. Gatfield, that we might sup- 

 pose them to be from the same bed or dyke ; and this is not impossible since the balls 

 might well have been made at Hooghly under the Mogul Government and even from 

 the materials of a Hindoo Pagoda. 



Major Ouseley has forwarded to us a specimen of an ore, with the matrix, which was 

 brought to him as the copper ore of the " Tamba Pahar" (copper mountain), near 

 Suraykela, and also a hit of copper said to be made from it. This ore, however, is not 

 copper but good magnetic iron ore ; and this is the second instance in which iron ores 

 (in the former instance a poor ferruginous silicate sent about four years ago) have been 

 sent from that quarter as copper. I learn that the native chiefs threaten the direst 

 punishments to those of their followers who shew the Europeans the mines, as they fear 

 their being taken possession of by Government, as I believe is always the case under 

 native rule. And if they really possess copper mines they no doubt derive some revenue 

 from them. 



Captain Shortrede has handed in a few small specimens of iron ores collected on his 

 road between Jubbulpore and the banks of the Sone. They are mostly Hematites of a 

 very fine grain and quality, and he states that they are very abundant. 



We have received from Professor Zipser of Neusohl in Hungary, the following very 

 gratifying letter which Dr. Roer has kindly translated for us : — 



To the Honourable Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



" The Ausburg Universal Gazette having published a Circular from the direction of 

 the Honourable Asiatic Society with regard to the establishment of a Museum of Econo- 

 mic Geology, the undersigned, in furtherance of this object, has much pleasure in offer- 

 ing gratis to the Society his orycto-geognostic collections of minerals of Hungary and 

 Transylvania. 



" We are, is said in that Circular, in almost entire ignorance about India and its 

 resources, as well as about the causes, by which the progress of that country in several 

 branches of industry, as, in mines, agriculture, &c. is so much retarded. To develope 

 its resources, we must be assisted by every information not only respecting India, but also 



