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3. Prom Mr. J. Nietner, some additional papers on the Coleop- 

 tera of Ceylon. 



4. Prom Messrs. Hermann and Bobert Schlagintweit, copy of 

 a report on the progress of the Magnetic Survey from July to 

 September last, being an account of a journey across the chain of 

 the Koenluen from Ladak to Khotan. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report. 

 Mr. H. F. Blanford called the attention of the meeting to a series 

 of fossils from the nummulitic rocks of Scinde, which had been found 

 among the boxes belonging to the Government Museum of Economic 

 Geology and had since been arranged and examined. These were 

 now on the table. The Geological Survey were also indebted to 

 Colonel Baker for kindly presenting to their collection a few species 

 of which the original collection did not contain examples. 

 The collection consisted of 247 species, viz. : 



Species. 



Mammalian Bones, 1? 



Pish teeth, 1 



Cephalopoda. 



Nautili, , 2 



Gasteropoda, 



Strombiaae, 9 



Muricidae, ,. 26 



Buccinidae, 10 



Conidae, 6 



Volutidae, 8 



Cypraeidae, 8 



Naticida?, ... 9 



Cerithiadae, 10 



Turritellidae, 10 



Littorinidse, 3 



Turbinidte, 4 



Lamelli-lranchiata. 



Ostreifhe, 20 



Mytilidae, 4 



Arcadae, 9 



Chamidse, 4 



Cardiadae, 



