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Resolved that the Society's best thanks be offered to Mr. Bayley 

 for his interesting paper. 



— From W. Muir, Esq., enclosing Meteorological Registers kept at 

 the office of the Secretary to Government N. W. P., Agra, for the months 

 of July, August and September last, and offering to send them regu- 

 larly in future, should the Society agree to publish them in the Journal* 



Resolved that the Society should gladly avail themselves of this offer. 



—From Lieut. C. B. Young, Rangoon, announcing the dispatch of 

 another collection of Geological specimens from Prome. The letter 

 scarcely gives more than a hasty catalogue of the specimens, but the 

 following extracts are of interest. 



" 1 will add one or two more specimens of shells by the next oppor- 

 tunity, from the calcareous sandstone of Prome in silex, one of which I 

 should have considered to be * Producta,' but that I believe, that it 

 belongs to coal formations only. 



" I have found Chalk here in the bazars, which is said to come from 

 Shaedown, a little South of Prome. If so, it will be interesting ; Mica 

 also of good quality, coloured with oxide of iron apparently, from 

 about twenty miles North of Prome." 



— From A. R. Young, Esq., Under-Secretary to the Government of 

 India, enclosing a catalogue of specimens illustrative of the Geology 

 of the Salt Range in the Punjab, and of the Muree, Hazara and 

 Cashmere Hills. 



— From P. Melvill, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Administration, 

 Punjab, announcing dispatch of the specimens alluded to by Mr. Young. 



— From Dr. Fayrer, Rangoon, submitting a Meteorological Register 

 kept at that place for the month of October. 



— From W. Muir, Esq., Secretary to Government N. W. P., forward- 

 ing copies of correspondence regarding twenty-one ancient silver coins 

 found in the district of Benares, together with the coins themselves, 

 which are to be deposited in the Museum of the Society until the 

 pleasure of the Hon'ble Court of Directors be known. 



The Curator of the Zoological Museum, and the Librarian submitted 

 their usual monthly reports and the meeting adjourned. 



Read and confirmed, 19th Jan. 1853. 



(Signed) J. W. Colvile. 



Library. 



The following books have been added to the Library since the last meeting. 



Presented. 

 Catalogue <les Manuscripts et Xylographes Orientaux de la Bibliotheque 



