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The Coin Cabinet of the Society has received an addition of 17 

 gold coins from the Government of the N. "W. Provinces, and a few 

 silver coins of historic importance have been contributed by several 

 gentlemen. 



The Government of India having resolved upon establishing a 

 separate Geological Museum in connection with the Geological 

 Survey, has directed the transfer to the proposed institution of its 

 Museum of Economic Geology which has been in charge of the So- 

 ciety since 1841. 



By this arrangement the Society has lost the valuable services of 

 Mr. Piddington, who, besides taking charge of the Government 

 Museum of Economic Geology, has hitherto had the care of the 

 Society's own collections of minerals and rocks. 



The accession of new specimens in this department has been re- 

 corded by the Curators. They include amongst others a superb 

 meteorite from Sougoule presented by Mr. Grote ; a valuable collec- 

 tion of fossils from Kohat by Lieut. Trotter ; a fine specimen of the 

 scarce mineral Condrodite from Nagpore, by the Eev. S. Hislop ; a 

 box of minerals and specimens illustrating the different stages of 

 metallurgical processes, particularly of the manufacture of iron 

 from Col. Tremenhere ; and a valuable series of Casts of Sewalik 

 fossils from the Museum of the India House, presented by the 

 Hon'ble Court of Directors. 



The Museum continues to be a source of considerable attraction 



Nov. 18th to 29th being 12 days open to the P ubHc ' and that {t ™ du ^ 



Natives, Europeans. appreciated is best shewn by the 

 Male Female Male Female Total. . . , ., , , ,, 



2889 81 65 19 3054 numbers who daily resort to the 



December 26 days open. rooms. Verv few persons having 

 5638 205 288 118 6249 J F . 

 hitherto recorded their names in 



9303 the visitors' book, the Jemadar was 

 directed in the middle of November last to note carefully the name 

 and sex of every visitor who expressed either an inability or a reluc- 

 tance to write. The average thus obtained appears to have exceed- 

 ed 240 persons a day, as shewn in the margin. 



Journal. — Six Nos. of the Journal have already been issued, and 

 another, which will be the last of the year, is in the press, and 

 nearly ready for publication. Of these No. VII contains a complete 



