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For the Museum — Various Asiatic weapons and a suit of mail, presented by 
Lieutenant Anderson. 
Horns of various kinds of deer, presented by Captain Herbert. 
Specimens of Rocks from Penang, by the President. 
Resolved that the thanks of the Society be given to the donors of the above. 
For the Library — The following donations were received. 
The Philosophical Transactions for 1830, part 2, from the Royal Society. 
Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, vol. 5, from the 
Society. 
Medical Reports, from the Medical Board of Madras. 
Four Nos. of the Vienna Review, from J. Von Hammer. 
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Nos. 19 and 20, for January, and April, 1831, 
from Profesor Jamieson. 
Archaeologia, vol. 23, from the Antiquarian Society. 
First volume of the Transactions of the Plymouth Institution, with a letter from 
Mr. Ross. 
Journal Asiatique, Nos. 37, 39, and 40, from the Asiatic Society of Paris. 
Fragmens Bouddliiques, and description du Tubet, by Klaproth. 
Resolved, that the thanks of the Society be given to the donors of the above. 
Read a letter from Captain Ruddell, transferring to the Society, a further collec- 
tion of Tibetan manuscripts. 
The Meteorological Register for August and September, presented by the Surveyor 
General. 
The following books received from the London Booksellers, since the last meet- 
ing, were laid on the table. 
Ca rue’s Letters from the East, 2 vols. 
Cabinet Cyclopedia, 4 vols. 
History of France, 2 do. 
Ditto of England, 2 do. 
Ditto of Netherlands, 1 vol. 
Literary. — Submitted the abstract catalogue of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions of 
the Kahgyur by Mr. Cosma, with a note by the Secretary. 
Read a letter from Sir C. Grey, forwarding a paper on the Geology of Penang, 
by Mr. Ward, with specimens. 
Resolved that the thanks of the Society be given for the preceding communica- 
tion, and that it be referred to the Physical class. 
Submitted a Journal of a Journey from Ava to Kcnbal,by Dr. Richardson. 
Physical Class. t. 
Wednesday Keening , 1 6th November. 
The Honorable Sir Edward Ryan in the Chair. 
The following communications were read : 
!• A letter from N. A. Vigors, Esq. Secretary to the Zoological Society of 
London, dated 20th January 7 , 1831, expressing that Society’s acknowledgments^ 
the handsome collection in natural history, presented by the Physical Class through 
Captain Franklin. Also, forwarding printed copies of the Society’s Proceedings, 
in which an account of the objects in question is given. 
“• A letter from G. Swinton, Esq. transmitting three balls received from Cap- 
tain Rawlinson, Political Agent at that Court, supposed to have fallen from the 
atmosphere during a thunder-storm near Tongho, in Pegu. Their exterior appear* 
aiice precisely resembled that of rusty iron shot ; weight 1 to 2,000 grains; spec, 
gun. 3.4 ; texture granular ; colour grey ; not attracted by the magnet. 
1 he mineral was analyzed by* digestion in muriatic acid, which took up the 
lion ; the residue was then boiled in nitric acid, which acidified the sulphur ; clear 
granular sand remained, from which, by the usual process, a portion of the other 
eai tlis was separated : the composition was in round numbers as follows : 
Sulphur, 20 
Iron, ................ ... 34 
Silex, 39 
Alumine and lime, \ % . , // 7 
100 
The absence of nickel, chrome, and manganese was fully ascertained, and c 
sequent ly, the non-meteoric origin of the balls : they differ in no respect from n 
duiar pyrites, or impure bi-suiphuret of iron. 
