1854.] Literary Intelligence. 717 



results Mr. Prinsep's from his specimen Journal Vol. VII. p. 198, 

 which are evidently not from the same coal, though from its appear- 

 ance, it might be taken for it. 



Our present jet coal. Ky end wen coal. 

 H. Piddington. Mr. J. Prinsep. 



1854. 1S32. 



Sp. Gravity, 1.42 1.363 



Water, 11.88 8.00 



Gaseous, 32.12 40.00 (32.00, less 



Carbon, 32.60 54.00 [water) . 



Greyish white ash; 



does not effervesce, 23.40 5.90 



100.00 10790 



There is evidently some error of the press in Mr. Prinsep's table,- 

 but we can only conjecture that it may have happened that he for- 

 got to substract the 8.00 of water from the gaseous (volatile) result 

 in the first operation when he had ascertained it as usual by an 

 independent experiment which would leave 32.00 for the gases pro- 

 perly so called. Mr. Prinsep has not noted the colour of his ash 

 which would perhaps enable us to ascertain if it was the shale of 

 No. I. It is certain that No. II. is not the mere shale of No. I. 

 on account of the difference of colour of the ash. 



Literary Intelligence. 



A Catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. in the Eoyal Library at Berlin, 

 by Dr. Weber, is the first of a series of catalogues of the MSS. in 

 that Library which has been in progress since 1842 by order of the 

 Prussian Government, on which the undertaking reflects great 

 credit. The plan originated with Dr. Pertz, on his being appointed 

 chief librarian of the Eoyal Library at Berlin, and at his suggestion 

 Government directed that the first grants should be assigned to 

 cataloguing the oriental MSS. As to the form of the catalogue it 



