368 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 4. 



which, if good, might be well worth working, since good specimens sell at 

 high prices in eastern countries, where the stone is supposed to possess 

 peculiar virtues and is therefore held in high estimation. 



H. PlDDINGTON, 



Curatory Museum Economic Geology. 

 Library. 

 The following books have been received into the Library during the 

 month of March, 1851. 



Presented. 



A Synopsis of the characters of the carboniferous Limestone Fossils of 

 Ireland. By Mr. Frederick M'Coy. Dublin, 1846, 4to. Presented by 

 Richard Griffith, Esq. 



A Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland collected by R. Griffith, 

 Esq. — By F. M'Coy, Esq. Dublin 1846, 4to. — By the same. 



Astronomical observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge, by the 

 Rev. James Challis. Vol. XVI. for the years 1844-5. Cambridge, 1850.— 

 Presented by the Syndicate of the Cambridge Observatory. 



Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government. No I. on the 

 Poppy Cultivation and the Benares Opium Agency. By Dr. W. C B. 

 Eatwell. Calcutta, 1851. Pamphlet. — By the Government of Bengal. 



Tattwabodhini Patrika. No. 91. — By the Tattwabodhini' Sabha'. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, 

 for the month of February, 1851. — By the Deputy Surveyor General. 



Satyamaba, No. 9. — By the Rev. J. Long. 



The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, for January, and 

 February, 1851. Two copies each. — By the Government of Bengal. 



List of Articles contributed from Bengal to the Great Exhibition of 1851 . 

 —By Dr. J. M'Clelland. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, February, 1851. — By the Editor. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, April, 1851. — By the Editors. 



The Citizen, for March, 1851. — By the Editor. 



Upadeshaka, No. 52. — By the Editor. 



The Oriental Baptist, No. 52. — By the Editor. 



The Purnachandrodaya newspaper for March, 1851 — By the Editor. 

 Exchanged. 



Athenaeum, Nos. 1208—12. 



Purchased. 



Layard's Nineveh, 2 vols. 8vo. 



Humboldt's Cosmos. Translated by Otte, 2 vols. 



Journal des Savants. Novembre, 1850. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, for December, 1850, and 

 January, 1851. 



The French in India. — By Lieut. Laurie. 



Comptes Rendus, Nos. 22 to 25, for Dec. 1850. 



