1853.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 495 



in an excavation made for the purpose of obtaining ballast for the 

 Railway : it will be observed that they are encrusted with limestone 

 (Kankur). 



" They were accompanied by several other fossils which I have 

 failed to obtain, but which are said to have been of a similar charac- 

 ter to these now presented to the Society. It is probable that they 

 all belonged to one animal." 



Mr. W. J. Herschel of the Civil Service, duly proposed and second- 

 ed at the last meeting, was balloted for, and elected an ordinary 

 member. 



Dr. E. Boer was named for ballot at the next meeting, — proposed 

 by Mr. Grote and seconded by Dr. Sprenger. 



The Council submitted a report for the removal of Mr. J. T. 

 Shave's name from the list of members, under Rule 13. 



Communications were received — 



1. From W. Muir, Esq. Secretary to the Government of the 

 North- Western Provinces, forwarding a Meteorological Register 

 kept at the Government Secretariat Office, Agra, for the month of 

 April. 



2. Erom W. G. Young, Esq. Under-Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal, enclosing further correspondence regarding the 

 discovery of coal on the bank of the Chawa JN~adee. 



The report of the Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology, 

 read at the April meeting, referred to this discovery. The corre- 

 spondence now received gives the result of an examination of the 

 site of the coal by a small party of sappers. 



The following extract from the report of the serjeant in charge of 

 the party is not favourable. 



" The Sivok Nadee is about four miles long, and takes its rise 

 from between two high hills (names not known) which are, judging 

 from supposition, in height three or four thousand feet, and very 

 steep, extending its course for upwards of two miles between these 

 hills, before it opens out into the plains. Ultimately it empties 

 itself into the river " Teesta" two miles further on, the average 

 width being about ninety feet, and it is in that portion of the Nadee 

 between the hills and not on the plains, that, amongst the higli rocks 

 which overhang each side, the coal exhibits itself in the fissures of 



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