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emery. With all that however it is a hard job, and a cut of perhaps 

 five inches in every direction will take a continued work of perhaps 

 six weeks, the meteoric irons being exceedingly tough. If you 

 were to cut off in that way a lump of, say, ten or twelve pounds 

 and send it over, we might have it cut afterwards in smaller speci- 

 mens here, if you would send specimens also to one or auother 

 Museum in Europe. 



Now I have said a great deal about what we wish you should do. 

 But I must also say what we are ready to offer you as a fair exchange. 

 The Imperial Vienna Museum would send you specimens of meteo- 

 rites new to your cabinet or museum of several localities, of which 

 there are duplicates, and there are such of a good many of them. 

 If you should fix upon some one or other of them, we should do our 

 best to have your wishes executed. I suppose the greater part of 

 your Museum will have remained in the possession of the Society. 

 Some Meteorites may be however also in the possession of the 

 Museum of practical Geology, and I write also on behalf of the 

 Meteorites to Mr. Oldham. I should be most happy to hear soon 

 of your acceding to my proposition. I should have added, that on 

 account of your most valuable present, we have entered on the list 

 of our correspondents, your own honored name, as also that of the 

 President, Hon'ble Sir James Colvile, Yice-Presidents — Baboo Ram- 

 gopaul Ghose, A. Grote, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel R. Strachey, — 

 H. Piddington, Esq., E. B. Cowell, Esq., Baboo Rnjendralal Mittra, 

 Baboo Gour Doss Bysack ; the writs of notification of which have 

 been accluded to the package of our last numbers. 



I have the honor, &c, 



(Sd.) VY. Haidinger. 

 W. S. Atkinson, Esq., 



Secy., Asiatic Society of Bengal, 



With reference to this letter, the Council announced that they had 

 appointed a Committee consisting of Mr. Oldham, Dr. Thomson, 

 and Mr. Atkinson, to examine the meteorites in the Society's collec- 

 tions, and to report how far it was possible or desirable to comply 

 with M. Haidinger's request. The Committee had presented a re- 

 port which the Council had adopted, and they now requested authori- 

 ty to carry out the recommendations contained in it. 



