112 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 1. 



1. — From Baboo Eada Nauth Sikdar, forwarding abstraets of the 

 Meteorological Eegister kept at the office of the Surveyor General, 

 Calcutta, for August and September last. 



2. — From Dr. Campbell, Darjiling, through Major Thuillier, copy 

 of a Eegister of the Temperature of the Ocean, with the chart of 

 the voyage of the " Agamemnon" shewing the daily position of the 

 ship at noon, from the Sandheads of the Hooghly, to the river 

 Thames. 



3. — •From Mr. Oldham, a notice of the recent additions to our 

 knowledge of the Cretaceous Eocks of India. 



The paper was read by the Secretary and the thanks of the 

 meeting were accorded to the Author. 



Some Terracotta sculptured slabs which Captain Tule had received 

 from Ava, were at his request exhibited to the meeting, and excited 

 considerable interest. 



The librarian submitted his monthly reports for December and 

 January last. 



The following is Mr. Oldham's paper. 



On some additions to the knowledge of the Cretaceous roclcs of India. 

 By Thomas Oldham, LL. D., F. R. S. 9 M. B. L A., F. G. S. 8fc, 

 Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, 



At the meeting of the Society for the month of May 1857, Mr. 

 Henry Blanford and myself were present, with the intention of 

 laying before the Society, a brief notice of a very important dis- 

 covery bearing on the Geology of India which had not long pre- 

 viously been made. This was the fact of the occurrence of rocks 

 of the Cretaceous epoch in the western portion of the Nerbudda 

 district. And the specimens illustrative of the intended com- 

 munication were laid on the table. The attention of the meeting 

 on that occasion, having been fully occupied by other matters of 

 interest, and importance, which came before it, time did not allow 

 of this geological communication being brought forward, and as both 

 Mr. Blanford and myself shortly afterwards left Calcutta, the sub- 

 ject was not again brought before the Society. I am, however 

 desirous of recalling these facts, from the circumstance that the 

 same discovery has subsequently been brought forward elsewhere 



