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Its specific gravity was not taken, as it is of too loose a texture and we 

 have but too small specimens of it. 



(Signed) H. Piddington, 



August 27th, 1851. Curator, Museum Economic Geology. 



Captain Sherwill has presented to the Museum small specimens of the 

 native gold and Cinnabar of California, and Dr. Huffnagle has also presented 

 us with a very beautiful specimen of the Auriferous Quartz from California, 

 shewing the gold dispersed in minute spangles through the substance of the 

 semi-transparent and opaque quartz. 



I have carried on as a paper for the Journal the Table of our Examination 

 of Indian Coals from that given by Mr. Jas. Prinsep in Vol. VII. p. 197, 

 bringing it down to the close of Vol. XIX. for 1850; the two affording at 

 once a full register of the Economic value of all our Indian and of some 

 foreign coals. 



We have received from Mr. Walter Elliott of the Madras Civil Service, a 

 box of specimens collected by Lieut. Applegarth, M. N. I. near the bank of 

 the Kistnah which it was hoped might contain organic remains indicative of 

 coal, but there is nothing of the kind in them nor does even their lithologic 

 character give any promise of the kind. As the excavations, however, are 

 but superficial better success may attend farther research in more favorable 

 spots. 



H. Piddington, 

 Curator, Museum Economic Geology. 



For November, 1851. 



The usual monthly meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on the 

 evening of Wednesday the 5th November last, at half past 8 p. m. 



J. R. Colvin, Esq. Senior member of the Council present in the 

 Chair. 



The proceedings of the September meeting were read and confirmed, 



Donations were received — 



1st. From Mr. Frederic Fitzgerald of Philadelphia. A Stone Tom- 

 mahawk, or war hatchet, found on the Allighaney Mountains in the 

 United States of America. Mr. Fitzgerald observes that " a withe of 

 tough wood forms the handle of this hatchet, and that it must have 

 been made before the discovery of America by the Europeans as iron 

 very soon supplied the place of stone." 



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