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[NO. 8, NEW SERIES, 



5. India, No. 17 — Reports on Mineral Deposits in Kumaon. 



6. India, No. 20 — Reports on Pegu, Tonghoo, and Sal ween, also 

 Major Jacob's complaint against the Punjaub Board. 



7. Selections from Madras Government Records — Correspond- 

 ence regarding the Railway. 



8. Second Edition of Dr. Baikie's account of the Neilgherries — 

 with 5 Plates in Tin Case. 



9. Report on the Elliot Marbles by the Revd. W. Taylor. 

 Received by order of the Right Honorable the Governor in 



Council at Bombay, the Bombay Magnetical and Meteorological 

 Observations for 1854 and 1855. 



Received from the Smithsonian Institution the Smithsonian con- 

 tributions to Knowledge, Vols. VII and VIII, and the Eighth An- 

 nual Report of the Board of Regents of the Institution for 1853 

 and 1854. 



Received, through the same source, a Prospectus intimating that 

 Professor Agassiz intends publishing, in a series of ten quarto 

 Volumes, the principal results of his extended investigations in the 

 Natural History of North America. It is proposed to print the Pros- 

 pectus in the fly leaf of the next number of the Journal, and the 

 Committee desire to warmly recommend the work to the lovers of 

 science throughout the Presidency. 



The Committee also take this opportunity of acknowledging the 

 receipt, from the Smithsonian Institution, of the Constitution and 

 Bye-Laws of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, which came 

 accompanied by Vol. I, No. 1, of the Proceedings of the Academy. 



In accordance with a wish expressed by the Members of the New 

 Orleans Society, the Committee will have much pleasure in effect- 

 ing an interchange of Scientific Productions with them. 



The Committee also acknowledge with thanks the receipt from 

 the Honorable Walter Elliot, Esq., of Volumes 9 and 10 of De 

 Candolle's Prodromus Regni Vegetalis. As the Society is alrea- 

 dy in possession of the first 8 Volumes of the work, it was re- 

 solved that the succeeding Volumes be purchased, as they are, or 

 may be, completed. 



The Meeting separated a little before 8 o'clock. 



