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which is abundant on the Western side of a range of hills not far 

 from the coal bed. Iron stone is found in great abundance all over 

 these districts, but I thought these specimens might be interesting, 

 as containing fossil remains well shewn. 



" Should this coal be found of value, it might I think be made 

 available. The nearest point of the Mahanuddy would be ' Pud- 

 dumpore,' from which the coal bed lies about twenty-five to thirty 

 miles North. At present the country surrounding, is wild jungle 

 With only a very few small villages of half a dozen houses, within 

 ten miles on all sides. The country is however, capable of being 

 brought under extensive cultivation. Should Calcutta and Bombay 

 be hereafter connected by Eailway, this coal would lie on the way. 

 The bed appears very extensive, a nullah running into Ebe Eiver 

 (which joins the Mahanuddy about ten miles above Sumbhulpur) 

 passes over and through it, and masses of the upper coal which is very 

 light are floated down the nullah during the rains. From this, it 

 was known that coal existed, and I learnt of it from Mr. William 

 Campbell from Sumbhulpur, whom I accidently met. This induced 

 me to arrange my other duties, so as to admit of my visiting the 

 place. The coal is in places exposed on the upper surface, and at 

 others the small water-courses of one or two feet deep running into 

 the nullah, expose it. I walked some distance up the nullah and 

 found the bed continuous, and a mile or more below where one 

 path crossed the nullah, the coal was there in abundance, underneath 

 a stratum of sandstone, and exposed on the surface on the bank. 

 The weather was most unfavourable, and obliged me to hurry over 

 my visit, or I should have made a more careful examination of the 

 place." 



3. From W. H. Smith, Esq. Foreign Secretary to the Eoyal So- 

 ciety of London, acknowledging receipt of the Journal, Nos. 1 to 4. 



The Curator in the Zoological Department and Librarian sub- 

 mitted reports of additions made to their Departments, since the 

 last meeting. 



After the close of the Ordinary business, M. Herman Schlagint- 

 weit in behalf of himself and brothers presented to the Society an 

 electro-type model of Monte Eosa and explained to the meeting 

 the process by which they had surveyed it in 1851, and the prin- 



