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W one of a finer texture. The cotton used for the finest thread was grown in 
tL immediate neighbourhood of Dacca; more especially about Sunergong. Its 
short however, to admit of its being worked up by any except that 
most wonderful of all machines— the human hand. The art ot making theveiy 
fine muslin fabrics is now lost— and pity it is that it should be so. 
Physical Class. 
Wednesday evening , the 10 th August. 
Captain J. D. Herbert in the Chair. 
A letter from Colonel Torrens, c. b. was read, communicating the permission 
of his Excellency the Commander in Chief, for the absence of Private Connellj, 
of His Majesty’s 16th Foot, from his Regiment, while employed upon the expen- 
m s n emal°Geological specimens received from the Reverend R. Everest, were 
exhibited, illustrative of his observations on the Ramgerh district, read at a foimei 
^A specimen of Plumbago from Ceylon, was presented in the name of the late 
B A h pap°er was^ead on the Fossils of the Burdwan Coal Strata, by Dr. Falconer, 
Acting Superintendent of the Botanical Garden at Seliaianpur. 
An" Analysis of the specimen of Graphite, or Plumbago, from Ceylon, was 
communicated by the Secretary. . _ . , , • , . afni , 0 f i 10 
An examination of several varieties of Indian Coal, was also laid befoie t 
Vofessor Moll’s experiment in Electro-magnetism was afterwards exhibited to 
the meeting. 
2. — Medical and Physical Society. 
Saturday , the dtk August, 1831. 
Messrs. Harvey and Scott were elected Members of the Society. _ 
Several letters and communications were then presented to the Society, and t e 
following papers were read and discussed by the Meeting. eiuai ^ 
employment of blood-letting in the cold stage of intermittent fevers, by Dr 
Mackenzie, who is stationed near Arrakan, and has extens pp treats 
ascertaining the value of that treatment, concerning which his 
Dr.M. is no advocate for the indiscriminate use of the 1*^ 1* 
intermittents, and where the cold stage is distinct 
highly of this remedy ; and indeed states, that he fine s i t ] v ascertained : 
all cases where the early period of the paroxysm can , ej'ite cathartics 
other remedies are used at the same time, and the 11 1 1 y ° , j t j at ma y 
is strongly urged, as necessary to insure the success ot any 
be tried in agues. Quinine is by no means ?verlooked ; on the co Jjlvea. 
been used with the greatest benefit, in conjunction wi i J ? : t ^ e effi ca cy 
Dr. Mackenzie strenuously advises personal observation 
of venesection, in agues, should have the benefit ot the c r . the renor t of 
of the Medical men themselves, trusting as little as possible t 1 
Native assistants, or the opinions of patients. , n f fvino- the 
Mr, Preston’s Report wis next discussed : it relates to the : efficacy of tymg«£ 
common carotid artery in bad cases of Epilepsy. ie . lc . . w i 10 had been 
appears to have been favorable, in so far as that a plethoric patient, who had been 
subject to Epilepsy of very severe description for five y ears > |?ad = P ftt the 
Performed upon him on the 4th February, and had no return ot the d 
date of his report on the 13th April. . D f Kemaon, 
Mr. Lindesay’s paper on the Salep Misree, prepared in I , . , j g a i wa y 8 
^ould lead us to expect ample supplies of this nutritious article, 
of high price in the Calcutta market, and often not genuine. contain ; n g an 
Another Report of Mr. Lindesay.'s was laid As an 
abstract of Meteorological Observations, for twelve months, at h £ hest tempe . 
example of the temperature at that station we may state, tna » 
mure observed at any time in the months of July and August imu, 
/'i° rMowest 61 ° 6'. Diseases of Assam, consists 
Mr. Leslie’s Report on the Medical Topography and Disease their influ- 
°f three parts. The first relates to the localities about Gov ha , 1 
