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Iron ores and iron from ditto ditto. 



Iron ore from Eirbhoom. 



Tin ore and tin from Tenasserim Provinces. 



Iron ditto from Tavoy. 



Coal from Namdang in Assam. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 

 (Signed) Thos. Oldham. 



Mr. W. Theobald, Junior, has obliged us with a number of rock speci- 

 mens from the Punjab, which are not yet examined, nor has any catalogue 

 of them been received. 



Major Ramsay, resident of Katmandoo has again obliged us by soli- 

 citing and obtaining from H. E. the Minister Jung Bahadoor some very 

 handsome specimens of Nepaulite, with its melted ores, some of which 

 is on the table, and a box of the products of a different mine, which will 

 be examined and reported on in due time, as they require a careful in- 

 vestigation. 



We have received from Captain W. S. Sherwill of the Revenue Survey 

 a small Meteorite, of the fall of which, with a number of others, the 

 following extract of a letter from him, gives an account. 



" By to-day's Dawk Banghy, I have despatched to your address, and for 

 presentation to the Asiatic Society's Museum, a tin case containing a 

 small Aerolite that fell from the heavens near to the small Military sta- 

 tion of Segowlee on the Katmandoo road, and 20 miles from the foot of 

 the outer or lower Himalayas. It was given to me lately when I was 

 at Moteeharee, which is near Segowlee, by Mr. F. A. Glover of the Civil 

 Service, Joint-Magistrate of Chumparun, who also kindly gave me the 

 following description of its fall. 



" f The stone or rather stones, for there were several, (I saw five or six) 

 fell about mid-day of the 4th March, 1853, no noise accompanied their 

 fall ; nor were they seen falling ; a man and a boy who were engaged in 

 the fields were startled by hearing heavy thumps on the ground caused 

 by the falling stones, they picked up the stones and brought them to 

 their village,* from whence they were taken by some of the Irregular 

 Cavalry Sowars to Segowlee. The adjutant of the corps, Lieut. Mac- 

 dougall gave me one large stone, and I procured two smaller ones (one of 

 which I gave you) from the village near which they fell.' 



" There seems to be no reasonable doubt but that the stones fell as 



* A small village a few miles South of Segowlee. — W. S. S. 



