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have drawn it up, will attract the notice of some of the Society's Mem- 

 bers and causp' them to aid my views and wishes. 

 Trusting I shall hear from you to that effect, 

 I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your obedient Servant. 



(Signed) Munstek. 



Parts, 3d May 1840. 



Resolved, that every assistance in the Society's power be afforded to 

 his Lordship. 



Read a letter from Lieutenant J. Whitlock, 8th Cavalry, forwarding 

 a spherical sandstone concretion, from the red marie cliffs of Dawlish 

 in Devonshire, which he supposes to be of the same character as those 

 described in the proceedings of the Society's Meeting of the 13th of 

 February last, as having been found in the laterite formation at Stree- 

 perraadoor : — offering, also, to procure for the Society specimens of 

 the Alcyonites found at Gurrah, near Nagpore. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Lieutenant Whitlock for 

 his donation, and an assurance that the promised fossils will be thank- 

 fully received. 



Read extract from a letter from Lieutenant T. J. Newbold, dated 

 Suez, 31st May 1840, forwarding for the Society's Museum minerals 

 from the shores of the Red Sea. 



The ihauks of the Society were voted for the same. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to the Geological Society expressing 

 thanks for the donation of the Society's Journal No. 23. 



Thursday Evenings M September ISiO— Captain J. T. Smith, in 



the Chair. 



The following works, presented to the Society, were laid on the 

 table, and thanks voted for the same 



Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India — 

 Tol. 7th — By the Society. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Nos. 13 and 1 4— By the 

 Society, 



