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The Chairman announced to the meeting that the Council have 

 appointed Babu Bajendralal Mittra, to officiate as Secretary pend- 

 ing the election of a Secretary. 



Communications were received — 



1. From the Govt, of the N. W. Provinces through Mr. Asst- 

 Secy. W. Carmichael, forwarding copy of a meteorological register 

 kept at the Office of the Secy, to the Govt, at Agra, for the month 

 of Sept. 1855. 



2. From Babu Badhanath Sikdar, enclosing abstracts of the 

 results of the hourly meteorological observations taken at the 

 Surveyor General's Office, in the month of July, 1855. 



3. From A. Grote, Esq. enclosing a letter from Dr. Hunter, to 

 Col. Hannay, on a collection of clays, &c, from Debrughur, Upper 

 Assam. 



The following is Dr. Hunter's report on the specimens. 



No. 1. Brilliant white kaolin or porcelain earth of first rate quality 

 suited to the manufacture of porcelain, chemical, and table wares. 



No. 2. Fresh compact white felspar, the Petunse of China, used 

 in the bodies and glazes of porcelain and pottery. 



No. 3. Fossil wood of coal measures, makes good table weights 

 when polished (silicious.) 



No. 4. White fossil wood of coal measures impregnated with 

 Alumina (a rare kind of fossil wood.) 



No. 5. Indianite, a mineral intermediate between quartz and 

 felspar, contains a good deal of lime or potass and melts into a pure 

 white enamel. 



No. 6. Shell limestone or blue mountain limestone of the coal 

 formations containing fossil wood. 



No. 7. Compact limestone with crystals of calcareous spar and 

 transverse septae. 



This is a fragment of a gigantic Ammonite. 



No. 8. Tuffaceous lime, portion of a gigantic Ammonites catena 

 (see plate 42 Fig 3, of Buckland's Geology.) 



No. 9. Tuffaceous lime and clay slate containing impressions of 

 shells and of an Ammonite. 



No. 10. This is a very fine specimen of nepheline, a rare mineral 

 belonging to the felspar family. 



