550 The Aborigines of Central India. [Nor, 



contained in meteoric iron ores,* my first experiments were made on 

 the meteoric iron of Pallas, well known and repeatedly analysed by 

 distinguished chemists, and in reality I have found in it both copper 

 and arsenic, also in the Mexican meteoric iron of Yuanhuitlan, near to 

 Oaxaca, brought home by my colleague M. Sommerschu principal 

 engineer of mines ; in a meteoric iron from Tennessee described by M 

 Troost in Silliman's Journal ; and finally in a fragment of the great mass 

 of meteoric iron, deposited in the museum of Natural History of Yale 

 College in Connecticut. Consequently it is not only at the surface of 

 the earth that iron is mixed with copper and arsenic, but also in the 

 solid portions of other celestial bodies." 



Copper I have as yet failed to detect in our meteorite, but I should 

 be far from affirming that it does not exist in it. 



H. PlDDINGTON, 



The Aborigines of Central India. — By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



At the close of last year I had the honour to submit to the Society 

 a summary view of the affinities of the sub-Himalayan aborigines. I 

 have now the honour to submit a similar view of the affinities of the 

 aborigines of Central India. The extra copies of the former paper 

 which were sent to me by the Society I forwarded to Colonels Ouseley, 

 and Sleeman, to Major Napleton, Mr. Elliot of Madras, and other gen- 

 tlemen, with a request that they would get the vocabulary filled up 

 from the languages of the several aborigines of their respective neigh- 

 bourhoods. The three former gentlemen have obligingly attended to 

 my wishes, and I am assured that Mr. Elliot also is busy with the work. 

 Of the seven languages which I now forward the comparative vocabu- 

 lary of, the three first came from Chyebossa, where Colonel Ouseley' s 

 Assistant, Capt. Haughton prepared them ; the 4th and 5th direct from 

 Col. Ouseley himself at Chota Nagpur ; the 6th from Bhaugalpur pre. 



* M. Rammler of Vienna has found the avsenious acid in the peridot of the meteo- 

 ric iron of Pallas (Pogg. Annal, 1840, No. 4.) 



