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Dr. Mayer's Report was laid upon the Table : 
Read the following letter from Dr. Mayer, 
I hare much pleasure in forwarding the accompanying paper on the Chemical 
composition, properties, and probable uses of the rarious Salts forwarded to me, 
and stated to be obtained from the Loonar Lake. I cannot close this note with- 
out favoraV.e mention of Mr. G. Norton mv assistant in the Laboratorv, by whose 
great assiduity and intelligence I haye been enabled to finish my examination in 
a Tery short space of time. 
Resolved, to tender the thanks of the Society to Dr. Mayer for 
his able and interesting Report, which was delivered to the Com- 
mittee of Papers for publication in the Journal, as an appendix to 
Dr. Smith's account of the Loonar Lake. 
The Receipt of the following Papers, was communicated to the 
Meeting. 
A Vocabulary of theToda Language, by the Rev. T. Metz, of the 
German Evangelical Mission, (commenced in the present number.) 
An Entomological Paper descriptive of some new Coleoptera 
found at Ceylon, by J. Nietner Esq., (published in the present 
number.) 
This is the first number of a Series of Entomological papers, 
which the author has resolved upon publishing. He has kindly 
promised to furnish the Society with a fresh number every month. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Metz and Mr. 
Nietner for their able communications, and the Committee of 
Papers were desired to address a letter to the latter gentleman to 
inform him of the pleasure it will afford the Society to receive a 
fresh Entomological paper from him every month. 
The following papers were presented to the Meeting. 
The Secretary to the Photographic Society communicated a paper 
by Captain Tripe on a Paper Process which he has found well 
suited to Indian Photography. This paper, which had already 
been read before the Photographic Society, will appear in the 
Jouraal, together with a table of Formulae for preparing Albume- 
nized paper, drawn up by Captain Scott of the Artillery, also trans- 
mitted by the Secretary. 
Mr. Elliot read a paper, communicated through him by Dr. Traill, 
on a collection of deep sea Molluscs made with the aid of a tow- 
