1853.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 315 



Major Ramsay now resident of Nepal sent me some time ago, as already 

 noticed in a former report, a collection of 96 specimens of rocks and 

 minerals of various kinds, which the minister Jung Bahadur had had 

 collected, and of which he was desirous of knowing the value, as one was 

 supposed to contain tin, &c but the whole prove to be valueless, except 

 one of a very fine quartz, equal to the best Brazilian pebbles, a splendid 

 white marble, a Kyanite, (sometimes used in jewellery and inlaying work,) 

 a blue copper ore, and the last of the series No. 96, which as I announced 

 before, is certainly a new mineral, even in the form in which it reached us, 

 Major Eamsay has just sent specimens of the ore, which will be examined 

 in due course. The history of this mineral product I reserve for the full 

 account of its examination. 



Captain Haughton, 1st Assistant Agent to the Governor- General on the 

 S. W. Frontier, has sent us a large collection of some 50 or 60 ores of 

 copper, iron and lead, from that quarter, which will be duly examined. 



Library. 

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

 meeting. 



Presented. 



Indische Alterthumskunde von Christian Lassen. Zweiter Band. Bonn, 

 1852. Royal 870. — By the Author. 



Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Hon'ble East 

 India Company's Observatory, Bombay, in the year 1849. Bombay, 1852, 

 4to. — By the Superintendent oe the Observatory. 



Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Koniglichen Bibliothek. Erstes 

 Band. Yerzeichnisse der Sanskrita Handschriften von Herrn Dr. Weber. 

 Berlin, 1853, 4to. — By the Author. 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Yol. XXII. — ■ 

 By the Society. 



Jahrbucher der Literatur. Nos. 2, 4, 26, 28, 78, 89, 90 and 92.— By 

 the Baron von Hammer-Purgstall. 



Selections from the Public Correspondence of the Board of Administra- 

 tion for the affairs of the Punjab : Nos. 1 and 2. 4 copies each. — By the 

 Board. 



Report of the Revenue Administration of the Lower Provinces for the 

 official year 1851-52. —By the Government of Bengal. 



Journal of the Indian Archipelago, for October 1852. 2 copies. — By 

 the same. 



Ditto ditto, for November 1852. — By the Editor. 



