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the neigbbourliood of Kabul— s. transcript of a mutilated inscription 

 from Hund, 20 miles above Attock. — Capt. Burnes had left the white 

 marble slab on which it was engraved at Peshawer awaiting the 

 Society's instructions. He hoped by the next meeting to give a 

 further account of it. 



The members present then shook hands with Dr. Mill> and the 

 meeting adjourned. 



1st November 1837.— Read extract of a letter from Dr. Royle, Se- 

 cretary to the Geological Society, transmitting under charge of Cap- 

 tain H. Drummond, the gold Wollaston medals awarded to Dr. Hugh 

 Falconer and Captain P. T. Cautley, for their fossil discoveries in the 

 Sewalik range. 



Professor Royle was induced to send these tokens of the approbation 

 of the Geological Society (of which he has recently been nominated an 

 office-bearer), thinking his associates in the Asiatic Society would like 

 to see them : but more particularly because the excellent paper on the 

 Sivatherium was first made public in their Researches^ and it would 

 be the best proof of the interest taken by the scientific at home in the 

 novel and interesting discoveries in which so many members of the 

 Society have been successfully engaged within the last four years. 



Dr. Royle quoted the following extract from Mr. Lyell's address de- 

 livered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society on the 

 17th February, 1837. 



ORGANIC REMAINS. 



** Gentlemen, you have been already informed that the Council 

 have this year awarded two Wollaston medals, one to Captain Probjr 

 Cautley of the Bengal Artillery, and the other to Dr. Hugh Falconer^ 

 Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, for their re- 

 searches in the geology of India, and more particularly their discovery 

 of many fossil remains of extinct quadrupeds at the southern foot of 

 the Himalaya mountains. At our last Anniversary I took occasion to 

 acknowledge a magnificent present, consisting of duplicates of these 

 fossils, which the Society had received from Captain Cautley, and 

 since that time other donations of great value have been transmitted 

 by him to our museum. These Indian fossil bones belong to extinct 

 species of herbivorous and carnivorous mammalia, and to reptiles of 

 the genera crocodile, gavial, emys, and trionyx, and to several species 



