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number are worked by colonies of Lobars wbo form temporary villages where timber is abun¬ 
dant, passing to new localities when they have exhausted the supply in their vicinity. Although 
Sal (Shorea rob us to) is the wood most commonly used for making charcoal, I found the Bijasal 
(Dipterocarpus marsupium) seemed to be preferred by some. Bamboo, though abundant, never 
seems to be used. The wood is cut into logs about 3§ feet long, or rather more, and is burnt 
in holes which are about 4 feet square and 18 inches deep. Small branches are not used. 
The furnaces are somewhat smaller thau the largest which are used in Bengal; they are fur¬ 
nished with a tray above, in which a quantity of mixed ore and charcoal is kept, which can be 
raked into the top of the furnace by the person working the bellows without other assistance. 
This, of course, is a great saving of labour as compared with the usual system which involves 
the presence of a second person to feed the furnace. Differing from the practice in Hazaribagh, 
the same individuals make the gin (bloom) and also work it up into iron for the market. The 
girls were much smaller than in Hazaribagh, in one case at Jodiboga not exceeding 6 or 7 seers, 
generally, perhaps, they are about 10 seers. So far as I could make out, the Mahajans get 
from 15 to 20 seers of iron for a rupee from the Lohars, but owing to the advance system and 
the transactions being chiefly in kind, this cannot be accurately ascertained. 
ACCESSIONS TO LIBRA BY. 
Feom 1st July to 30th Septembee 1875. 
Titles of Hooks. Donors. 
Anca P. and Gemmellaeo, G. G.—Mouografia degli Elefanti Fossili di Sicilia (1867), 
4to., Palermo. 
Abchiac, d’ and IIaime Jules. —Description dcs Animaux Fossiles du Groupe Num- 
mulitique de L’lnde (1853), 4to., Paris. 
Beyeich, E.—Trias—Ammoniten (1864), 8vo., Berlin. 
Beyeich, E.—Ueber eine kohlenkalk—Fauna von Timor (1865), 4to., Berlin. 
Bied, Isabella L.—Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the 
Sandwich Islands, (1875), 8vo., London. 
Deslongchamps, Eugene. —Documents sur la Geologie de la Nouvelle—-Caledonie (1864), 
8vo., Paris. 
Eichwald, Ed. de. —Lethiea Rossica, Vols. I to III, with Atlas of 4to. plates, (1852-1868), 
8vo., Stuttgart. 
Favee, E.—Becherclies Geologfques dans la partie centrale de la Chaine du Caucase (1875), 
4to., Geneva. 
Geological Survey of Missouri. Preliminary Report on the Iron Ores and Coal Fields, from 
the Field Work of 1872, with Atlas (1873), 8vo., New York. 
IIeee, De. Oswald. —Flora Fossilis Arctica, Band I—III (1868-1875), 4to., Winterthur. 
Koninck, L. de. —Notice sur deux especes de Brachiopodes, 8vo., Bruxelles. 
Maceaelane, James. —The Coal Regions of America (1875), 8vo., New York. 
Marcotj, Jules. —Dyas et Trias (1859), 8vo., Geneva. 
Noggerath, De. J.—Das Erdbeben (1847), 4to., Bonn. 
Schmidt, De. J.—Studien fiber Erdbeben (1875), 8vo., Leipzig. 
Seebach, K. von. —Das Mitteldeutsche Erdbeben von Marz, 1872 (1873), 8vo., Leipzig. 
The Seventeenth Anniversary Report of the Burra Bazaar Family Literary Club (1874), 
8vo., Calcutta. 
The Club. 
