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Very small, and some of them doubtful fragments of this remark- 
able meteorite have as yet reached the Society. We shall be glad 
to obtain as many and as large specimens as possible for communication 
to .the various scientific bodies in Europe, who are engaged in inves- 
tigating these deeply interesting cosmical phenomena. 
Our Society will be under great obligation to you for any aid you 
can give in elucidating the actual facts of this extraordinary fall. 
I have, &c., 
(Signed) W. S. Atkinson-, 
Dotty. Secy. As. Society. 
To the Honorary-Secretary, Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 
Dated Lahore, 1st May, 1861. 
Sib, — I n reply to your letter of the 20th April, I am directed to for- 
ward, for the information of the Society, copies of two letters from Mr. 
E. Saunders, Deputy Commissioner of Kangra, giving all the accounts 
which are obtainable of the fall of meteorites at Dliurmsala last year. 
I regret that no specimens are now procurable to be furnished to 
the Society. 
I have, &c., 
(Signed) E. H. Davies, 
Secy, to Govt. Punjab. 
The first of these letters has already been published in the Society’s 
Journal, No. IY. of 1860, p. 412. 
The second is subjoined. 
“ With reference to your No. 683, dated 4th instant, I have the 
honor to state, that I have been making further inquiries with regard 
to the Meteorite that fell at Dliurmsala. 
No fresh information can, however, be obtained beyond that 
contained in my No. 927, dated 28th July, to the orders of the 
Punjab Government. 
I beg to append copy of a letter received from Monsieur Haidinger, 
Director General of the Imperial Geological Institute of Austria, 
dated Vienna, 14th November, 1860, on the subject of these meteoric 
stones. 
In reply to this letter, I forwarded a copy in extenso of my 
account of the fall of the Aerolite referred to above, and begged the 
favour of their furnishing copies to each of the Institutions for which 
specimens were requested 
