538 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 6. 



Mr. J. W. Biss has presented a few miscellaneous fossil specimens and 

 minerals, mostly from the neighbourhood of Bristol, from which we shall 

 be able to select a few for our collections. 



Economic Geology. — Captain Sherwill has forwarded to the Museum, 

 from Kursiong near Darjeeling, a quantity of common scaly Graphite of 

 two different varieties, black and grey, of which he says : 



" The bed or rather rocks bearing the mineral are 2600 feet thick ! 

 This has been principally brought to light by a landslip that I went to 

 examine ; No. 2 specimen is from the landslip." 



As before said, this is unfortunately only an inferior description of 

 graphite, of which, though in such, abundance, the sale would not probably 

 pay the costs of carriage and freight, but I have pointed out to Captain 

 Sherwill the chances that a more compact kind may be found amongst or 

 near to this, and the compact kind, as well known, is highly valuable 

 for its use in the fine arts. 



Mr. Berdsmore of Mergui has forwarded a box of ores and slag which 

 he supposed to be Copper, but the whole of them are Iron. A fine spe- 

 cimen of tin ore accompanies them. 



I have obtained for the Museum a specimen of American machine- 

 made bricks, which are brought from that country to California, and here 

 as ballast, as I am informed ; and being sold here are found very useful 

 from their stone-like hardness for the flooring of stables, and work of that 

 description. 



Libeaey. 



The following additions have been made to the Library during the 

 month of May last. 



Presented. 



Sindh, and the Eaces that inhabit the valley of the Indus. By Lieut. 

 E. E. Burton. London, 1851. 8vo. — Peesented by the Authoe. 



Symbolical Euclid in Urdu, edited by William Lawler, Anglo-Arabic 

 Master of the Madrasah College. Calcutta, 1852. 8vo. Lithograph. — By 

 the Editoe. 



Proceedings of the Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab, from 1st 

 May to 31st December, 1851. Lahore, 1852. 8vo.— By the Society. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator for April, 1852. — By the Editoe. 



Journal of the Indian Archipelago for February, 1852, (two copies). 

 — By the Goveenment or Bengal. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Cal- 

 cutta, for the month of April, 1852. — By the Deputy Sueveyoe Gene- 

 ral. 



