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Records of the Geological Survey of India. 
[VOL. II. 
Table II. 
Table of measurements in the new Jail Wells. 
Depth of 
Depth of Water 
Depth of Water 
Well. 
on 19th June. 
on 10th October. 
feet. 
feet, inches. 
feet, inches. 
A. 
Police Well 
. 
30 
28 
0 
22 
6 
B. 
Penitentiary, 1' 
—9" below A. 
66 
38 
0 
43 
6 
c. 
Central Jail, 4'- 
-6" „ „ . 
39 
21 
6 
31 
0 
Meteohites. —To the collection of Meteorites in the Geological Museum, there have 
been two valuable additions during the past three months. One of these, a specimen of 
the very interesting fall which occurred on the 11th July 1868, at Omars (Doubs), in France, 
has been presented by M. Jules Marcou, Paris. It is a remarkable stone of a dark-grey 
colour, oolitic or sub-oolitic in texture, very friable, so as even to crumble under the action of 
the fingers. Iron is present in extremely small particles. It is veiy slightly magnetic. 
In fact, the fall represents a state intermediate between the ferruginous and the non-ferru- 
ginous falls, sp.gr. 3‘599 (in fragments). It yielded to Pisani by analysis no less than 
7510 per cent, of Peridot. To the kindness of my good friend M. Marcou I am indebted 
for this interesting specimen. 
The second fall occurred in India, near Mooltan, on the 17th October. The fall took 
place at a spot about 12 miles east of Lodran. “ About 2 P. H. a loud report was heard 
“ in the sky to the westward, and immediately a cloud of dust rose from the ground. On 
“ going to the spot the aerolite was found. The sky was quite clear at the time.” This is 
the account given by Captain Bond, District Superintendent of Police. 
A portion only of the mass was obtained and forwarded. It is a very beautiful stone, 
consisting of a large proportion of bright yellowish green olivine, the crystals of which are 
imbedded in a kind of crystalline net-work of brilliant iron. The stone is at present being 
analyzed, and the result will be given hereafter.—T. 0. 
ACCESSIONS TO LIBRARY. 
From 1st October 1868 to 31st December 1868. 
Titles of Rooks. Donors . 
Beneden, van and Gekvais, Paul. —Osteographie des Cdtaces vivants et fossiles, comprenant 
la description et l’iconographie du squelette et du systdme dentaire do 
ces animaux uinsi que des documents relatifs a leur histoire naturelle, 
Liv. 1. and Atlas, 4to. and Fob, Paris, 1868. 
Biqsby, J. J .—Thesaurus Silurians. The flora and fauna of the Silurian period, 4to., 
London, 1868. 
Chantee, E.—E’tudes paleo-ethnologiques ou recherches Geologico-archeologiques sur 
1’industrie et les moeurs de l’homme des temps ante-historiques dans 
le nord du Dauphind et les environs de Lyon, 4to., Paris and Lyon, 
Congres international d’anthropologie et d’arclieologie prehistoriques, Liv. 1, 8vo., Paris, 1868. 
D’Alton, Dr. E., und Buemeister, Dr. H.—Der fossile gavial von Boll in Wurttemberg 
mit bezugnahmc uuf die lebenden Krokodilinen naeh seiner gesamnten 
organisation Zoologish gesehildert, Fob, Halle, 1854. 
Elliot, Sir 11.—History of India, Vul. 1, 8vo., Loudon, 1868. 
Government or India. 
