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do not, in my opinion, merit particular consideration. Capt. Tickell 

 is said to have sent the Society a gold coin from Kesna, but I could 

 not learn that any other of gold, silver, or copper had ever been 

 found at Kesna, Benee Sagar, or Nagra. The offer of a reward 

 produced some small thorn-like pieces of gold, a portion of a gold 

 ring and some stone beads at Kesna, but elsewhere nothing. 



" At Nagra, twenty-three miles S. S. E. from Chyebassa, in the 

 jungles, are some heaps of brick in fragments, spread over a sufficient 

 extent to warrant the supposition, that a town of moderate size once 

 existed there. The remains of a stone-lined tank would indicate 

 some wealth and civilization, but the ruins afford no defineable trace 

 of temple or other building. The former inhabitants of the Pur- 

 gunnah having been expelled in modern times by the Coles, there is 

 now no local tradition regarding the place. Trees of a century or 

 two's growth nourish on the spot. 



" I had some hope that information as to these ancient towns might 

 be gleaned from the Bunsawullee of the Eaja of Porahat, or from 

 the local Pundits, but my enquiries have not been attended with 

 success. 



" I conclude that if any ruins of importance exist in this direction, 

 they are to be looked for further South in Mohrbunj or Keunjer. 

 The nearest known to me are those of Kiching in Keunjer, and in 

 the opposite direction at various places in Sirgooja, about one hun- 

 dred miles to the N. W. of this." 



10th. — Eead extract from a private letter from Col. Bawlinson, 

 dated Baghdad, 5th July, 1853, containing allusions of interest to 

 the progress of his researches in Assyrian Antiquities. 



The Librarian and the Curator of the Zoological Department of 

 the Museum submitted their usual monthly reports. 



Bead and confirmed. Octoher 5t7i, 1853. 



(Signed) J. B. Colyin. 



Report of Curator, Zoological Department, for August Meeting. 



1. W. Theobald, Esq. Jr., late of the Punjab Salt Bange Survey, has 

 favoured the Society with a collection of mammalia and birds chiefly 

 obtained in the Salt Bange, with also a few skins from Kashmir. 



The mammalia consist of Ptekopus edulis (v. Edwardsii), Myotis 



