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stated, though this certainly rests on native testimony merely ; but in 

 this case, no object could be gained by falsehood. 



" The nearest rock to the spot is 20 miles in a northerly direction as the 

 crow flies. 



(Signed) " W. S. Shekwill." 



Patna, 24th November, 1854. 



The stone is undoubtedly a Meteorite, but we cannot afford to break 

 this valuable little specimen to obtain a large fracture ; we can only then, 

 judging from the small chips taken off, say that it greatly resembles Dr. 

 Tytler's Meteorites which also fell with a great number of others near 

 Allahabad some thirty or forty years ago. 



Economic Geology. 



Our acquisitions here are very numerous and rich, and one of them 

 indeed probably of immense importance. 



Captain Haunay's iron ores and paper on the history of iron in Assam 

 have already been before the Society. 



The Kumaon iron ores of Lt.-Ool. Drummond with his memorandum, 

 and those from Mr. Stephenson presented through Lt.-Ccl. Baker have 

 been already brought forward at a late meeting. 



Mr. Taylor of Burdwan has obliged as with some fine specimens of the 

 iron ores of Burdwan. 



Mr. Allen of the N. W. Dawk Company has sent for examination 

 some supposed copper ore or gossan from the neighbourhood of Simla. 

 It proves however to be a soft ferruginous shale without any trace of 

 copper. 



I said above that one of our acquisitions in this department is of immense 

 importance ; and this will be understood when I say that, after some difficul- 

 ty, I have at length procured through the kindness of Capt. Niblett of the 

 H. C. Steamer Sesostris, a bag of the Ava coal which we some time ago saw 

 announced in the newspapers, and that upon examination it proves to be a 

 first rate Steam coal, equal to some of the best Welsh Steam coals, the 

 Pont-y-pool and another, which it almost exactly resembles. I have been 

 also able to ascertain from Major Burney's Ava specimens in our collection 

 that the locality of this coal is the Ky end wen Eiver which falls into the Ir- 

 rawaddy a little above Yandaboo, about 200 miles from our frontier post 

 Meaday ; for a Jet coal from that locality of which also Captain Niblett 

 has brought us some very inferior specimens, was analysed by Mr. James 

 Prinsep and of this there are also specimens in Major Burney's collection 



