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3. — A letter from G. Swinton, Esq. was read, communicating extract* of letter* 
from Major Burney, Resident at Ava, and forwarding other mineral production* 
of that country. 
4. — A series of Geological specimens from the range of hills at Chf ra Punjl was 
presented by the President. 
They comprise varieties of granite — gneiss — mica and clay shite- bituminous 
shale — coal — sandstone and greenstone. The geology of the Kasyu hills has al- 
ready received elucidation from Lieutenant Fisher’s specimens and surveys. 
5. — A complete series of the rocks at Penangandtne neighbouring Islands was 
transferred from the General Secretary to the Physical Class ; they were present- 
ed by the Hon. Sir Charles Grey, on the part of Doctor Ward, accompanied by 
a paper on the Geology of the same Islands, the reading of which wn* defered to 
the next meeting. 
6. — Notices and drawings of the Ratwn deer, the Jh/iral, wild goat, and Ni/nt/r, 
or wild sheep of the Himalaya, were received from B. N. Hodgson, Ksq. Acting- 
Resident, Nipal. This zealous naturalist characterises all three animals ns of now 
species, and peculiar to those hills, unless the deer should prove to bo the same 
with the Cervus Mantjnc of Java, hitherto hut imperfectly described. 
7. — A paper on the migrations of the Nntatores and Qrallatores, as observed at 
Kathmandoo, by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., was then rend. 
The author commences by describing the local peculiarities in soil and climate or 
the valley of Nipkl. It is an oval of about sixteen miles longest diameter, elevated 
four thousand five hundred feet above the sea : temperature generally ten to fifteen 
degrees lower than that of India. The valley is populous, and industriously culti- 
vated during the spring; the winter being too severe for vegetation. In Hie rains, 
plantations of rice cover the greatest part of the land, which is flooded lot the 
1 Th^ wading and swimming birds generally make mere stage of the valley to 
and from the vast plains of India and Tibet. Mr. H. classes them under four h. «ds . 
— l. Those which pass the valley without alighting. 2. Snch Main, i a.. 
main a few days or weeks. 3. Such as seek the valley for the entire season ; and 
4. Such as do not appear to migrate at all. , It ,.i 
The migration southwards of the snipes, teal, ducks heron, storh% ’ ^ J 
woodcocks, respectively follows in succession from CCII1) . n t „f 
their return takes place in the same order, beginning vv i i *- M but OMrc 
March, and continuing till the middle ot May. Ihe ." ‘ ‘ ' The teal, 
in Nipal, in the midwinter of 1828, and was regan e< a. . tan j. s ’ Alsocor- 
widgeon, and coot remain for the whole season upon The red-legged gull, the 
morants upon the larger rivers within the mo mi a ‘ ’ ... , »ijj s distance from 
pelagic tern, and even the fishing eagle, have been met with at this distance 
their natural habitat, the ocean. 
Thanks were voted for the several contributions. 
2. — Medical and Physical Society. 
Meeting of the 5th November. Society, 
C. Ducat, Esq. Civil Surgeon at Poona, was ^^.^^nding Member. Various 
and Monsieur Julien Desjardins was elected a Con P t | iat the Iran- 
European Medical Works were laid on the table, and 1 1 • ; d t0 Cadi*, and 
actions of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society be tians.m 
a series of their publications requested in return. , the Society. 
The following communications were t ien pres prevalence of Hepatitis at 
, 1st. Remarks on the Climateof Bangalore and on he prei ^ for „ arded 
that station, from Dr. Mouat, Surgeon ot H. M. Utn ifi ( J M s _ Madnw . 
b y Dr. Strachan, Deputy Inspector- General o f H os Pi ' 1 , « bert 0 f the Kd.n- 
2d. A letter from Dr. Robert Jamieson, presenting 
hurgh Philosophical Journal. Travers’s work on Constitutions 
_ 3d. A letter from Dr. Grierson, forwarding tbe intellectual Power* ; 
Irritation, Christison on Poisons, and Abercrom . , Ro ^i College of Surgeons, 
inclosing a proposal from Mr. George Simson, , oi • of Disscc tions, and of 
London, to furnish the Society with Anatom engra vings in •«“ work » 
the gravid uterus accompanied by a apeci uge 0 f artists. % 
descriptive of the muscles of the human body, tor e , through Mr. Kos , 
dth. A communication from Dr. Traill o jjj lDgtitIlt , on 0 f Liverpoo , 
acknowledging on the part of the Committee of the Hnd returning thanks 
he receipt of the 4th volume of this Society s 
