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be, and to give me if possible a proof sheet of it. This was attempted 
under manifold disadvantages which I need not enumerate, and the 
sheet to which this is attached, is the result. The type is an excel- 
lent one, and none as far as 1 can judge, none exists in Europe or 
elsewhere equal to it. 
“ The press was pulled to pieces and the types scattered in an hour 
or two after this sheet had left the press.” 
2. From Babu Radha Nath Sikdar, Abstracts of Meteorological 
Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s office in the months 
of August and September last. 
3. From Captain J. F. Stevenson through Professor Oldham, 
notes of an interesting account of his visit to the hot springs of Pai 
in Tenasserim. 
4. From Lieutenant-Colonel IT. Yule a paper entitled “ A few 
notes on antiquities near Jubbulpore.” 
Colonel Yule read his paper to the meeting and a vote of thanks 
was passed to him for his interesting communication. 
Mr. Oldham laid before the meeting a small collection of fossils 
and rocks from the vicinity of Sydney, Australia, for which he stated 
that the Geological Survey were indebted to the kindness of his 
Excellency Sir William Denison. As these specimens presented 
several points of interest which might be new to the Members of 
the Asiatic Society, he had laid them on the table, and would say a 
very few words regarding them. 
To those who had given any attention to the subject of Indian 
Geology, it was well known that the true Geological horizon, or 
age of the Coal-bearing rocks of this country was a disputed question. 
By some they had, without much consideration of the evidence on 
one side or the other, been unhesitatingly placed at the same level 
in the general scale as • the coal-measures of Europe ; by others 
they had almost as unhesitatingly been referred to a much more 
recent epoch. The latter seemed to be the more favorite, as it was 
the more modern notion. Thus Mr. ITislop, to whose admirable 
researches near Nagpore, Indian Geology owed much ; Dr. Carter 
of Bombay, and several others, and to a very great extent following 
in their footsteps many European geologists also, had till very 
recently, admitted of no separation into distinct systems, or groups 
of different ages, of the immense thicknesses of rock which together 
