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" From this the pass originally, and subsequently the range, is 

 reported to have received the name of ' Hindu kosh,' the Hindu 

 slayer : as good a derivation at least as any I have heard before." 



From Captain Layard, forwarding a notice of an ancient city 

 Kurnsonapuri, now called Rangamati. The notice merely gives 

 the traditions handed down regarding this city. 



The Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology and the Libra- 

 rian submitted their usual monthly reports ; the former also read a 

 supplementary note on the new Mineral Eesin Hircine. 



On the termination of the proceedings of the evening, Major Kittoe 

 delivered a lecture on the antiquities of Sarnath, and exhibited a 

 series of drawings of ancient sculptures from that neighbourhood 

 and from other parts of the Benares and Behar districts. 



The President in the name of the Society thanked Major Kittoe 

 for his highly interesting lecture, when the meeting adjourned. 



Read and confirmed, March 2nd, 1853. 



(Signed) J. "W. Colyile. 



Report by the Curator of the Museum, Economic Geology. 



Miner ological and Geological. Our Secretary has sent me for examina- 

 tion some specimens mostly of laterite and lateritous clays and conglo- 

 merates, from Rangoon, forwarded by Captain C. B. Young, B. E. My 

 catalogue of them is as follows. 



Specimens of Soils, Sfc. from Rangoon. 



Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Lateritous clay, probably the debris of laterite 

 becoming again consistent by the solution of the ferruginous part. 



5 and 6. There is but one piece of these specimens, which I should 

 allow to be true laterite, and this I find to contain 



Peroxide of Iron, 47.50 



Siliceous and Aluminous residuum, 52.50 



No trace of Manganese or Lime, 100.00 



The other specimens of these two numbers are clearly the debris of 

 laterite cohering again as above, and in this case becoming conglomerates 

 by the mixture of quartzose pebbles ; they should be styled lateritous 

 conglomerates. 



7. Coarse-grained, highly ferruginous, sandstone j almost a siliceous 

 iron ore in appearance. 



8. Ferruginous nodule.s probably from the laterite. 



