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2. 'I am also to forward, for the information of the Society, a copy 

 of a communication No. 329, dated 5th instant, and enclosures, from 

 the Commissioner of Patna, containing some particulars connected 

 with the fall of the stone, which was witnessed by Hanooman Singh, 

 a resident of Mouzah Ahiherrah, in Pergunnah Bilounjah, Thannah 

 Nuhbeenuggur. The further particulars promised by the Deputy 

 Magistrate of Sherghotty will be communicated to you as soon as 

 they are received in this office. 



3. " I am to request that your Society will be good enough to cause 

 all the particulars of interest connected with this Aerolite to be 

 communicated to the authorities of the British Museum. 



(Signed) " S. C. Bayley." 



"Dated 2Qth October, 1865." 



From W. C. Costley, Esq, 



Deputy Magistrate of Shergotty, 

 To A. Hope, Esq., 



Magistrate of Behar. 



1. " With reference to your memorandum No. 838, dated the 26th 

 instant, I have the honor to submit, as requested, a circumstantial 

 report connected with the fall of the aerolite referred to therein. 



2. " As stated in my demi-official note of the 23rd idem, forwarding 

 the stone to you for your inspection, I at first doubted whether it was 

 a true aerolite or not, in consequence of the colour being different 

 from the one that fell in the Furrecdpore District in 1850, which, if I 

 recollect right, was brown in exterior appearance, and the flint or 

 silica, of which and iron aerolites are chiefly composed, being dis- 

 tinctly apparent ; but I find from Mr. Peppe, the Sub-Deputy Opium 

 Agent, that there can be no doubt of its being a true aerolite, as he 

 has already seen two that fell in this District, which presented a similar 

 structure and appearance. 



3. " The replies to the questions put by me. in conformity with the 

 instructions contained in the letter sent from the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, dated 23rd January, 1863, which was forwarded 

 with your Memorandum No. 297, dated 12th May, 1863, have not 

 been received ; but Banooman Singh, a resident of Mouzah Ahiherrah, 

 in Pergunnah Bilounjah, Thannah Nuhbeenuggur, who witnessed 

 the fall of the aerolite, states that on the 25th August last, about 9 



