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that the whole of all such manuscripts be made accessible to the 

 members during the hours prescribed for the attendance of the 

 Librarian and other servants of the Society. 



3. To ask what had been done in consequence of an intimation 

 he understood to have been circulated some years ago amongst the 

 members of the Society, regarding the publication of fresh maps of 

 the Soonderbunds, and for the production of all papers given in by 

 any one on that subject. 



4. That all duplicates or supposed duplicate fossil and other 

 remains in the Society's possession be offered to the Hon'ble the 

 Court of Directors for their disposal, he understanding the Hon'ble 

 Court to have expressed a wish for such, and at the same time to 

 be informed who is individually responsible that proper measures 

 are taken for the proper preservation of the fossil and other remains 

 in the Society's possession, considering a joint responsibility, no 

 security at all that such remains will be properly taken care of, 

 constant complaints being made that the Society's property is not 

 cared for as it should be. 



5. That the whole of the fossil and other remains be placed 

 under the sole charge and responsibility of the Curator of Economic 

 Geology, as appertaining to his Department, and the Curator be 

 called upon to report, after consultation with competent parties, 

 what measures he would require to be taken to secure the proper 

 preservation of the whole of those relics, and, especially, what is 

 considered the best coating for preserving them, and fossil shells 

 and bones, and teeth of mammalia, and whether a coating with a 

 mucelage of gum tragacanth is not the best and a sufficient means 

 of preserving such relics, if they are first saturated with it. 



Communications were received — 



1. From Dr. Wright, enclosing the following particulars of a 

 luminous appearance of the sea in Lat. 11° 27' ; Long. 105° 4CV E. 

 observed on Thursday the 27th of July, 1854. 



Hong Kong, June 6th, 1855. 

 To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 

 Dear Sie, — A short time since, I had an opportunity of examining 

 some Nos. of your Journal and find ( Journ. No. II. 1854 p. 206,) that 

 you solicit farther notices of such phenomena as Capt. Bowen has given 



