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saw here plainly enough on the 17th or 18th of October. The 

 motion of the comet is retrograde ; for Venus is come to this side 

 of the sun from the opposite side by the left, whereas the comet is 

 come round by the right. The motion round the sun is conse- 

 quently opposite to that of Yenus and the other planets. Tins is 

 fatal to its being Charles V.'s comet, if, as I believe is the case, 

 that comet's motion was direct. No perturbations from the 

 Planets could account for such a change." 



5. Prom the Government of India through Mr. Secretary 

 Beadon, transmitting 3 copies of a letter from the Government of 

 the N. W. Provinces to the Secretary with the Governor General 

 with enclosures relative to Mons. Adolphe Schlagiutweit. 



From Major H. Bams ay, Commissioner of Kumaon Division, to W. 

 Muir, JEsquire, Secretary to Government, North Western Pro- 

 vinces, No. 335, dated Nynee Tal, the 6th September, 1858. 



Sie, — When the Messrs. Schlagiutweit left this province to 

 prosecute their scientific inquiries in more northern countries, 

 several Kumaon men accompanied them, Most of these men re- 

 turned long ago, but Hurkishen came last of all, and after making 

 inquiries about Adolphe Schlagintweit, he requested me to settle his 

 accounts and receive his instruments. 



2, As Captain Strachey had some knowledge of the country 

 from which Hurkishen had returned, as also of those parts where 

 he was to carry out further observations, I requested that officer to 

 prepare a statement showing all that could be gathered from 

 Hurkishen — the instruments he had received from A. Schlagiut- 

 weit, and how disposed of, also the expenditure of the money he 

 had received. Captain Strachey, at considerable trouble, has kindly 

 prepared the enclosed memorandum with map to explain the known 

 and probable route of the missing traveller, and I solicit the favor 

 of your submitting it for the orders of the Right Hon'ble the 

 Governor General. 



I solicit orders regarding the pay of Hurkishen recommended 

 by Captain Strachey, as also in reference to the collections and 

 instruments left at different places. 



