1854.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 203 



" The peculiar structure aud aspect of pieces of this coal, referred 

 to by Mr. Piddington in his report, are due solely to the original 

 structure of the barks of the stems still preserved in their present 

 mineralized condition. In one of the beds of finer shale near the 

 base of the formation, I found numerous impressions of leaves of trees 

 and small fragments of carbonized stems, which will be subjected to 

 further examination, but no other fossils whatever were observed. 

 The characters of these leaves at once point out the geologically 

 recent epoch of the rocks in which they occur. There is no trace of 

 the great nummilitic group so largely developed along the base of the 

 Himalayan range, both the East and "West, and taking this into con- 

 sideration along with the very recent aspect of the few vegetable 

 remains which- have been found, I am disposed to refer the entire 

 of this great thickness of rocks, to the more recent periods of the 

 Tertiary epoch. 



" There is not the slightest prospect of this locality proving in any 

 way useful as a source of-'toal for any commercial purposes. Much 

 of the sand-stone would make a good dry building stone, easily con- 

 vertible, and, for interior work or wherever protected, durable." 



6. Prom W. J. Hamilton, Esq. Secretary Geological Society, 

 London, acknowledging receipt of the Journal Nos. 232 to 235 and 

 Catalogue of Birds. 



7. Erom Dr. E. Anger, Librarian, German Oriental Society, ac- 

 knowledging receipt of the Journal JSTos. 232 to 235. 



8. Erom J. Barlow, Esq. Secretary Royal Institution, London, 

 acknowledging receipt of the Journal ]STos. 232 to 235. 



9. Erom Major J. Abbott, enclosing the following papers — 



1. On the Popular Ballads of the Punjaub. 



2. Gradus ad Aornon. 



3. On the Mirage of India. 



10. Erom the Government of Bengal through Mr. Under Secre- 

 tary Young, enclosing a Memo, of observations made by T. Braddell, 



designated, are only the different modes of pronouncing the same name by the 

 Lepchas (Sivok) and the Michis (Chewa or Chewah). The latter people in most 

 cases give the harder sound of ch to the same words, which the hill tribes pronounce 

 with an S. Thus a large hill near the source of this Nuddee is Sitong, among the 

 Lepchas and Chitong among the Michis, &c. &c. 



