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Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. SS, 



Canara, &:c., Scott's Ferishta's Histoiy of the Deccan and Heyne's Tracts 

 may be sent me and the last numbers of the Journal of the French Asiatic 

 Society . 



If this request be granted, please send the Books to Griffiths and Co. 



Would you also send to Griffiths a set of the Madras Journal for M. 

 Garcin de Tassy. I will pay for those you have sent up to me. 



In the Box you will find a packet for Professor Owen ; it contains bones 

 from the caves of Kurnool. Also two for J. de Carle Sowerby, containing fos- 

 sils from Trichinopoly. These please send on with the cooly to Messrs. Grif- 

 fiths who will pack them on my own account and send them to London. 



As soon as described by Professor Owen and Mr, Sowerby, I shall not 

 fail to apprize the Society of the results. Messrs. Griffiths will pay the 

 cooly his balance, but please write me a line in answer to say you have re" 

 ceived the books, &c. There are 3 packets for you. One containing the 

 Journals of the French Asiatic Society. Another, small specimens from 

 the fossil bone caves, and the third, some minerals as per enclosed list — 

 both of which please present to the Society from me. 



No. 14, in the list is a mineral though not new to European Minera- 

 logy, yet new to the Mineralogy of S. India. I discovered it in the lead 

 mines in the Nulla Mulla hills a little to the east of GazoopiUy associated 

 with galena, sulph. of barytes, chert and an oHve green crystallized mine- 

 ral hitherto not analyzed. 



Of No. 14, Mr. Piddington who has analyzed it, thus writes, " I have 

 the pleasure of informing you that your red mineral is as you suppose an 

 ore of cerium, and moreover of that most rare kind carbonate of cerium. 

 It contains iron, lead, lime, silex, alumina, and perhaps yttria and mag- 

 nesia. 



KUENOOL, ^ 



March 18, 1845. / (Signed) T, J. Newbold. 



For the Asiatic Society of Madras. 



No. 1. Packet contains French A. Societj^ Journals. 



No. 2. Fossilized bones from bone caves of Billa Soorgum, Kurnool 

 frontier, with two specimens of the calcareous and gj^sious bone breccia. 



No. 3. Contains 14 Geological specimens as foUow : 



No. 1. Steatite quarried in the digimond limestone of Kurnool and ex- 

 ported in considerable quantities to Hydrabad, Madras, &c. It is used 

 chiefly for pencils to write on the black prepared cloth books in which 

 Natives keep accounts and for smoothing the surface of chunam piUars, 

 &c. It passes into the substance called French chalk. 



No. 2, 3, 4, and 5, varieties of Steatite. 



No. 6. Crystallized sulphate of barj-tes from diamond limestone of Kur- 



