400 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 4,- 
L. Griffin, Esquire, C. S. ; proposed by Mr. Cowell, seconded by 
Mr. Atkinson. 
Lieut R. C. Beavan, late 62nd B. N. I. ; proposed by Mr. Atkinson, 
seconded by tbe President. 
Communications were received : — 
3. From the Under Secretary to tlie Government of India, copies 
of two letters from tbe Bombay Government, with reports on the 
eruption of a volcano on the African shore of the Red sea. 
2. From Babu Radha Nath Sikdar, abstracts of Meteorological 
Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office in January last. 
3. From Mr. W. T. Blanford, contributions to Indian Malacology, 
No. II. by Messrs. W. T. and H. F. Blanford. 
4. From Mr. E. Blyth, a paper containing Zoological notices 
and extracts. 
5. From Colonel A. P. Phayre, a memo, on the countries between 
Thibet, Yunan and Burmah, by the Very Rev. Thomine de Mazure, 
Vicar Apostolic of Thibet. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Yule read the paper communicated by Col. 
Phayre, Commissioner of Pegu, being a letter from T. de Mazure, 
Vicar Apostolic in Thibet, residing at the mission establishment of 
Bonga in a valley of the mountains separating the Loo-kiang from 
the Lantsang-kiang, in the extreme S. E. corner of Thibet, to the 
Right Rev. Bishop Bigandet, Vicar Apostolic in Pegu and Ava. 
The Rev. Vicar Apostolic’s letter was dated 9th August, 1859, 
and took about 10 months to reach Rangoon. The route by which it 
came was not stated. 
He described the position of Bonga as above given, in about lat. 
28° 1 5", and gave various particulars regarding the rivers flowing to 
the South. Commencing with the Loo-kiang called by him Lout- 
skiang and going westward he mentioned the Kouts-kiang which 
appears from his description to he the Shweli, a tributary joining 
the Irrawadee below Bhamo, the Kanpo-dzanbo and the great 
Yarou-dzanbo, which he had no hesitation in identifying with 
the Irrawadee. He also mentioned Same, the village where the 
French fathers Krick and Boury were murdered in 1855, as only 
seven hard days’ travelling west of Bonga. The letter concluded 
with a short description of a number of wild tribes in that region. 
Col. Yule commented at some length on the paper. He pointed 
