728 Proceedings of th'e Asiatic Society. [No. 7. 



No. 32. Red marl used for coloring dips and glazes. 



No. 33. Yellow clay makes bright red earthenware. 



No. 34. This is not selenite but agalmatolite, the figure-stone 

 of the Chinese. The selenite ought to be sought for in the vicinity 

 of salt springs. 



The sample of soapstone is of the finest and whitest description, it 

 is like the fine French chalk used for scouring woollen cloth. Of the 

 above samples Nos. 17 — 21, and 23, would work well together, 18, 

 or 22, would work well with 27 and 28, with 31. You cannot use 

 the kaolin yet, till you get mills to grind the felspar and quartz 

 to a creamy consistency. 



4. From E. Thomas, Esq. submitting a paper on the Coins of the 

 Gupta dynasty. 



5. Erom B. H. Hodgson, Esq. enclosing vocabularies of the 

 Toda, Kota, Badaga, Kurumba and Irula tongues. 



6. Erom Lt. E. Stewart, North Cachar, forwarding " Notes on 

 Northern Cachar, with appendices, on the natives of the country 

 and their languages. 



7. Erom W. Theobold, Esq. submitting a paper on Indian oology. 

 The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report. 



Capt. Thuillier, at the request of the chairman, read to the 

 Meeting extracts from a private letter from M. Adolphe Schlagin- 

 tweit, giving an account of his travels beyond the Kumaon range. 



Library. 



The Library has received the following accessions since the last month, viz. 



Presented. 



Madras exhibition of 1855 : Catalogue Raisonne' of the thirty classes into 

 which the articles in the exhibition are divided, with an Index of the subjects 

 comprised in each class and of the names of exhibitors ; compiled for the 

 use of the Jurors, by Lieut. H. P. Hawkes, Madras, 1855, fl. fol. — By the 

 Govt, of Bengal. 



Official and descriptive Catalogue of the Madras exhibition of 1855, 4to. — 

 By the same. 



Ossetische Sprachlehre nebst einer Abhandlung uber das Mingrelische, 

 Suanische und Abchasische, von Dr. Georg Rosen, 4to. Pamphlet. — By the 

 Author. 



Catalogue of Stars near the Ecliptic observed at Markree, vol. Ill, Dublin, 

 1854. 8vo. — By the Royal Society of London. 



