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of rough drawings made at Gour during my short stay there in 

 January last. My intention is to send them to England to my bro- 

 ther to allow him to judge whether they are of sufficient interest for 

 publication. However as I obtained permission from Government 

 through the kind intercession of the Asiatic Society to visit the ruins, 

 it is only just that I should show the Society that their kindness has 

 not been abused, and that all such objects as I considered of interest 

 from their antiquity have been transferred, though I fear very inade- 

 quately, to my sketch-book and MS. 



" I should say that my notes were intended for publication (if ap- 

 proved of) in the Asiatic Society's Journal, but as they would be of 

 little worth without the drawings, and the execution of these in pre- 

 sentable form, being rather problematical in India, it is perhaps best 

 to forward all to England." 



2nd. From Major M. Kittoe, enclosing a note on the ancient gold 

 coins from near Benares, which were with the permission of Government 

 exhibited at the general meeting of April last, together with copy 

 of a note on the same, by Mr. E. C. Bayley. 



Ordered for publication in the Journal with the Catalogue which 

 previously accompanied the coins, and with the fac-similes which 

 have been taken of such of them as are worthy of note. 



3rd. From Dr. Fayrer, Field Hospital, Rangoon — Meteorological 

 Register kept at Rangoon for the month of June, 1852. 



4th. Major M. Kittoe, reporting on some ancient silver coins found 

 at Majdaha, near Benares, and sending drawings of them. 



Ordered that a letter be addressed to the Secretary to Government 

 N. W. Provinces, in the hope of procuring the original coins for the 

 Society's inspection. 



5th. From N. Bell, Esq., Secretary to the Royal Society of London, 

 acknowledging receipt of the Journal Nos. 34 to 48, N. S. 



6th. From W. Barlow, Esq., Secretary to the Royal Institution, 

 London, acknowledging receipt of the Journal No. 224. 



7th. From J. "W. Dalrymple, Esq., Under-Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal, forwarding, for the information of the Society, copy of 

 a letter from the Secretary to the Board of Revenue with its enclosure, 

 respecting the existence of gold dust in the hill streams of the Char- 

 duar Forest, in Central Assam. 



Referred to the Journal Committee. 



