1847.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



nool. It is called Mugharai by tlie Natives and used by the Brah- 

 mins coarsely powdered in delineating' the figui-es before the doors of 

 their houses. It is prefeiTed for this purpose to chalk as the powder 

 has a peculiarly glittering- appearance when the rays of the sun fall 

 upon it. 



No. 7. Specimen showing diamond sandstone and the chocolate colored 

 shales of the limestone at the time of junction when nests of micaceous 

 iron ore are observable. 



No. 8. Diamond lunestone exhibiting cubic iron pyrites in process of dis- 

 sintegration which dropping or being finally washed out leaves circular 

 canities on its surface. 



No. 9. Diamond limestone with scorings on its surface. 



No. 10. Do. with furrows. 



No. 11. Do. with marks resembling those said to be caused by ancient 

 rains on the surface of the new red sandstone of England. 



No. 12. Altered Diamond sandstone near contact with trap dyke, exhi- 

 biting an actynolitic development in its structure. 



No. 13. Specimen from line of contact of diamond limestone, exhibiting 

 actynolite passing into asbestus and mingled with calc spar. 



No. 14. Carbonate of Cerium, a mineral new to S. India, discovered by 

 me in the Eastern Ghauts near Gazoopilly, Kmnool, associated with gale- 

 na, chert, sulph. of barytes, an olive green crystallized mineral not yet 

 analyzed, yttria and probably magnesia. 



(Signed) T. J.Newbold. 



Hesolved, — That the Books requested by Captain Newboldbe forwarded 

 to him, and the thanks of the Society be rendered to him for his valuable 

 present of Fossil bones and minerals. 



(Signed) J. Minchin, 



Secretary Jf. L. S., ^c. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held on Tues- 

 day evening^ the 6th May, 1845. 



PllESENT. 



* Chairman. 



J. C. Morris, Esq. 



Members, 



J. U. Ellis, Esq. Lord Arthur Hay, 



Lieut. Colonel Felix, Captain Losh, and 

 J. MiNClllN, Esq., Secretary. 



