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I packed a box with 14 specimens of the Aerolite and despatched 
this to the Private Secretary of His Excellency the Governor General, 
with a request that he would, after taking out certain specimens 
which were intended for His Excellency the Governor General, for- 
ward the box to Vienna, in the manner directed. 
One of the specimens was, as will be observed from the letter, 
intended for the British Museum. 
I have, however, now sent the only remaining two specimens* 
I could procure to Lahore for transmission to the Secretary of State 
for India, either for presentation to the British Museum or the 
Museum attached to the late India House, or for the acceptance of 
of Her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. 
The specimen now sent is the largest of any that has been 
despatched from Dliurmsala, and being beyond the weight authorized 
for Banghy parcels, I was under the necessity of forwarding it to 
Jullunder by coolies and thence by Government Bullock Train to 
Lahore. 
When worked up into handles for walking sticks, riding whips, the 
metallic substance is clearly visible. 
As to the precise form of the Aerolite, no positive information 
could be obtained, for it was found in fragments, and its intense 
coldness has been mentioned in the report before submitted. 
The original of the letter from Vienna, together with a printed 
paper giving the falls of former meteorites, and an account of them 
has been already forwarded to His Excellency the Governor General 
in India. 
The specimens for Lahore have been forwarded under separate 
covers.” 
The Secretary read some extract's from a report from Major II. 
Green, Political Agent at Khelat, communicated by the Government 
of India, giving an interesting account of the supposed origin and 
present condition of some of the Boloocli tribes. 
Mr. Obbard drew the attention of the meeting to a series of speci- 
mens of soil from the bed of the Hooghly, which ho had brought 
for exhibition. 
* No. 1 of the fragment- that fell at Bowania. 
No. 2 of- the lurge stone that fell ut Dhumiaala. 
