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and cracked severely, and to which considerable repairs will have to he 

 done:— The Episcopal Church; the old Salt Office, a two-storied 

 building now occupied by the Police ; the Magistrate's Cutcherry ; 

 the Judge's Cutcherry, and the Circuit House. 



9. The public buildings that have been slightly injured are — the 

 Commissioner's Cutchery, Custom House, Jail buildings, School, and 

 Military Hospital. 



Memorandum from R. Pereira, Esq., Assistant to the Commissioner 

 of the Chittagong Division, — (No. 522, dated the &th January 1866.J 



In the temporary absence of the Commissioner from head-quarters, 

 the undersigned begs to submit, for the information of the Hon'ble 

 the Lieutenant- G-overnor of Bengal, copy of the following report from 

 the Collector and Magistrate of Chittagong in continuation of this office 

 [Memo.] No. 517, dated the 6th instant. 

 From A. Smith, Esq., Magistrate and Collector of Chittagong, to the 



Commissioner of the Chittagong Division, — (No. 1472, dated the Qth 



January, 1866.) 



Sir, — In. continuation of my No. 1443 of 29th December, 1865, I 

 have the honor to report the occurrence of another slight earthquake 

 at 4-20 a. m. this morning." 



Mr. Blanford stated that he had examined the sand under the 

 microscope, and that it appeared to be ordinary river sand. There was 

 nothing of a volcanic character in it, nor did it appear that a chemi- 

 cal analysis would throw any important light on its origin. It had, no 

 doubt, been washed up from the lower part of the alluvial formation. 



7. From Babu Rajendra Mullick, specimens of a Paephagus Grun- 

 niens (yak). 



A Nasua Rufa (Coaiti Mondi). 



A Ceriomis Satyra (Tragopan). 



A Anser Indicus (bare-headed goose). 



A Psittacus Erythacus (Grey African Parrot). 



8. From A. G-rote, Esq., a skeleton of an Alderney Bull. 



9. From Major B. Macbean, a specimen of an Up-country Bull. 



E. C. Bayley, Esq. exhibited, on the part of Dr. Fayrer, two Knives 

 used in human sacrifices in Central India. 



The Council submitted a recommendation that Emil Von Schlagint- 



