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and lime were employed in building the cantonment, and from a 

 small experiment I made, I ascertained that the first were capable 

 of burning for pottery purposes. 



Nowhere in India have I seen such hard bricks, of so fine a colour, 

 or so lasting, as in Oude. There are forts, scattered all over the 

 district, built of baked blocks as sound and ruddy in hue as when 

 first constructed, although a period of 700 or 800 years has elapsed: — 

 some of these massive materials are several cubic feet in dimensions, 

 and, on being fractured, exhibit a fine vermillion red, with a strong 

 saline taste. The earths I now forward are from the new station 

 Persuddpoor on the right bank of the small river l Sihi,' Salone 

 Pergunnah." 



4. — Prom Mr. J. N. Payter, a book entitled Culpeper's Complete 

 Herbal, &c, originally published in London, 1653, and illustrative 

 of the state of Botanical science at that period. 



5. — Prom Major H. L. Thuillier, 28 sheets of the Trigonometrical 

 Survey maps for the India Atlas of the Society, completing the 

 series up to the present date. 



6. — Prom the Curators of the Calcutta Library, a copy of the 

 last Catalogue of the Library. 



7. — Prom Mr. J. Nietner, the first of a series of entomological 

 papers on the Coleoptera of Ceylon. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were balloted for and elected members. 



Lieut. H. S. Porbes, Artillery, 



Sultan Mohammed Busheerudeen Saheb, 



A. E. Young, Esq., B. C. S., and 



E. B. Chapman, Esq., B. C. S., 



The Council had the satisfaction to report, that a request which 

 they had made to the Government of India, to allow the lithogra- 

 phic drawings required for the Society's Journal to be printed free 

 of cost in the office of the Surveyor General, had been complied with, 

 under orders communicated by Mr. Under Secretary Chapman. 



The following draft of a reply to the despatch of the Hon'ble 

 Court of Directors, on the subject of the Oriental publications, 

 was next read. 



