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tion of the court a copy of the recent correspondence with Professor 

 H. H. Wilson on the same subject in explanation of the principles 

 upon which the Bibliotheca Indica has of late been conducted. The 

 draft of a reply would be submitted at the next meeting. 



3. — .From Mr. Secretary Beadon intimating the wish of Govern- 

 ment to transfer to a Museum about to be established under the 

 superintendence of Mr. Oldham the Geological collection of 

 Government hitherto in charge of the Society, and the services of 

 the Curator and his establishment, and inviting the Society to 

 deposit its own collections in the new Museum. Also a letter on 

 the same subject from Mr. Oldham. 

 The letters are as follows : — 



Feom C. Beadon, Esq., 



Secy, to the Govt, of India. 

 To the Hon'ble Sie James W. Colvile, Kt. 



President of the Asiatic Society. 



Dated the Wth July, 1856. 

 Hon'ble Sir, — The Government of India having resolved on 



forming in Calcutta a Museum of Geology, 



Home Department. .,, ri c c • • *ru 



r with a library ot relerence in connexion with. 



the Geological Survey of India, and under the direction of Mr. 



Oldham the Superintendent of that Survey, I am directed to request 



that the Society will place at Mr. Oldham's disposal the Museum 



of Economic Geology now in charge of the Society, and will permit 



Mr. Piddington, if he have no objection, to act as Curator of the 



new Museum on his present salary under the orders of Mr. Oldham, 



and subject also to such superintendence from the Professor of 



Geology in the Presidency College as Mr. Oldham may determine. 



2. The grant of Ks. 314 now paid to the Society in connexion 

 with the charge of the Museum of Economic Geology will cease 

 from the date on which the collection is removed from the Society's 

 premises. 



3. The Governor General in council in thus relieving the Society 

 of that which has long been a growing and unmanageable burden to 

 their Insitution, desires to express to its members the thanks of the 

 Government for having so long permitted the collection to occupy a 

 place in their house, and for the supervision they have exercised over 

 the Curator's proceedings. 



