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fifteen to thirty feet Lelow the surface, and has been ascertained to ex- 

 tend ten feet in the thickness. 



I hav3 therefore determined upon sinking a shaft in this place (about 

 fifty yards from the nullah), and, if no unfavourcible circumstances occur, 

 commencing to work the mine from this point. 



(True extract) 

 (Signed) E. A. Blundell, Commhsr, In the T. P. 



(True copies) 



(Signed) Henry Jas. Nicholls. 

 S, A, C. G. Tenasserim Provinces* 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Colonel Cullen for the 

 above communication. 



Mr. Braddock submitted an account of his analysis of the supposed 

 fossil from Hingolee. 



NOTE, 



By Walter Elliot, Esq. on the species of Naja described in the last 

 Number of this J ournal. 



Since the notice of the Serpent exhibited at the Meeting of the Socie- 

 ty on the 13tb January last, I have received the Journal of the Zoological 

 Society for 1838, in which, it appears that at the sitting of the 12th June, 

 Dr. Cantor read the following notice of a new Genus proposed by him, to 

 which the reptile figured in the UstNo, of the Journal appears to be re- 

 ferrible. It will be observed that Dr. Cantor at first considered the 

 species described by him in the Asiatic Researches, as a Naia. 



" The venomous serpent, to which I shall here call attention, is the 

 type of a new genus ; which, from its inhabiting hollow trees and fre- 

 quenting the branches, I propose to call Hamadryas. Its characters 

 induce me to assign it a place between the genera Naja, Laurenti, and 

 Bungarus, Daudin, which two forms it will be found to connect to- 

 gether. 



" In consequence of the strong resemblance in the general appearance 

 between the Naja and the Hamadryas, when first my attention became 

 attracted to the latter, I thought I could refer this serpent to that 

 genus; and it was not until I was able to examine a specimen whose 

 poison-fangs were untouched (those of the first specimens I saw having 

 been drawn by the natives who are greatly afraid of this serpent) that 

 I dLScovered the maxillary teeth behind the poison-fangs. 



