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covered only at Madras, where Native assistants are to be had. We 

 therefore accede to the application of the Society, and shall transmit the 

 entire collection, on condition, that should any descriptive account or 

 translations of them be prepared, copies of such descriptions or transla- 

 tions be sent for our Library. 



We are, &c. 



London-, . (Signed) John Cotton, 



6th March, 1844. § John Shepherd, &c &c. 



(True copy -and extract.) 



(Signed) J. F. Thomas, 



Secretary to Government. 



Read a letter from Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and Co., dated 6th April, 

 1844, advising the despatch of a case of books per Mellish. 



Resolved, with reference to the mistake of the Booksellers in sending 

 out the original large work of Ehrenberg instead of the smaller English 

 edition ordered; and observing that the letter of 12th December, 1843, 

 does not specify the Committee's order with sufficient clearness — That, 

 hereafter the Meetings of Committee be fixed at an earlier date than at 

 present, so as to allow of all drafts being circulated and passed by the 

 Members before despatch. 



Read the following letter from Captain T- J- Newbold, dated 19th 

 May, 1844. 



To 



The Secretary M. B. lioyal Asiatic Society, 



Sir, 



I have the honor to request you will have the goodness to return my 

 best thanks to the Society fur permitting me the use of the books named 

 in your letter of the 2d ultimo, now under acknowledgment; and also 

 for the 24 Nos. of the Society's Journal, which I conclude are for Mr» 

 Garcin de Tassy ; and which if I do not hear from you otherwise, regard- 

 ing their disposal, I shall forward to him. 



I have also to express to the Society the gratification and pride I have 

 experienced in receiving its thanks and approbation, as expressed in your 

 letters of the 25th August, 1843, and 27th February, 1844. 



I have the honor to forward for presentation to the Museum, specimen 

 of jasper and chert imbedding foraminifera, and also two small speci- 

 mens of coal from Kotah, about 10 miles up the Panheeta river above its 

 confluence with the Godavery. It occurs as a vein in the argillaceous 

 limestone associated with the sandstone dipping at a low angle to the 

 J£. E. It is curious as being the only specimen of a coal vein in this part 



