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Dr. Mayer's Report was laid upon the Table : 

 Read the following letter from Dr. Mayer, 



I have much pleasure in forwarding the accompanying paper on the Chemical 

 composition, properties, and prohahle uses of the various Salts forwarded to me, 

 and stated to he ohtained from the Loonar Lake. I cannot close this note with- 

 out favorahle mention of Mr. G. Norton my assistant in the Laboratory, hy whose 

 great assiduity and intelligence I have been enabled to finish my examination in 

 a very short space of time. 



Resolved, to tender the thanks of the Society to Dr. Mayer for 

 his able and interesting Report, which was delivered to the Com- 

 mittee of Papers for publication in the Journal, as an appendix to 

 Dr. Smith's account of the Loonar Lake. 



The Receipt of the following Papers, was communicated to the 

 Meeting. 



A Vocabulary of theToda Language, by the Rev. T. Metz, of the 

 German Evangelical Mission, (commenced in the present number.) 



An Entomological Paper descriptive of some new Coleoptera 

 found at Ceylon, by J. Nietner Esq., (published in the present 

 number.) 



This is the first number of a Series of Entomological papers, 

 which the author has resolved upon publishing. He has kindly 

 promised to furnish the Society with a fresh number every month. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Metz and Mr. 

 Nietner for their able communications, and the Committee of 

 Papers were desired to address a letter to the latter gentleman to 

 inform him of the pleasure it will afford the Society to receive a 

 fresh Entomological paper from him every month. 



The following papers were presented to the Meeting. 



The Secretary to the Photographic Society communicated a paper 

 by Captain Tripe on a Paper Process which he has found well 

 suited to Indian Photography. This paper, which had already 

 been read before the Photographic Society, will appear in the 

 Journal, together with a table of Formulae for preparing Albume- 

 nized paper, drawn up by Captain Scott of the Artillery, also trans- 

 mitted by the Secretary. 



Mr. Elliot read a paper, communicated through him by Dr. Traill, 

 on a collection of deep sea Molluscs made with the aid of a tow- 



