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[no. 3^ NEW SERIES, 
5. India, No. 17 — Reports on Mineral Deposits in Kumaon. 
6. India, No. 20— Reports on Pegu, Tonghoo, and Salween, also 
Major Jacob's complaint against the Punjaub Board. 
7. Selections from Madras Government Records — Correspond- 
ence regarding the Railway. 
8. Second Edition of Dr. Baikie's accoi.nt of the Neilgherries — 
with 5 Plates in Tin Case. 
9. Report on the Elliot Marbles by the Revd. W. Taylor. 
Received .by order of the Right Honorable the Governor in 
Council at Bombay, the Bombay Magnetical an^ Meteorological 
Observations for 1854 and 1855. 
Received from the Smithsonian Institution the Smithsonian con- 
tributions to Knowledge, Vols. VII and VIII, and the Eighth An- 
nual Report of the Board of Regents of the Institution for 1853 
and 1854. 
Received, through the same source, a Prospectus intimating that 
Professor Agassh intends publishing, in a series of ten quarto 
Volumes, the principal results of his extended investigations in the 
Natural History of North America. It is proposed to print the Pros- 
pectus in the fly leaf of the next number of the Journal, and the 
Committee desire to warmly recommend the work to the lovers of 
science throughout the Presidency. 
The Committee also take this opportunity of acknowledging the 
receipt, from the Smithsonian Institution, of the Constitution and 
Bye-Laws of the Neiv Orleans Acadeiny of Sciences, which came 
accompanied by Vol. I, No. 1, of the Proceedings of the Academy. 
In accordance with a wish expressed by the Members of the New 
Orleans Society, the Com.mittee will have much pleasure in effect- 
ing an interchange of Scientific Productions with them. 
The Committee also acknowledge with thanks the receipt from 
the Honorable Walter Elliot, Esq., of Volumes 9 and 10 of De 
CandoUe's frodromus Regni Vegetalis. As the Society is alrea- 
dy in possession of the first 8 Volumes of the work, it was re- 
solved that the succeeding Volumes be purchased, as they are, or 
may be, completed. 
The Meeting separated a little before 8 o'clock. 
