sea. From the ichthyolite-bearing strata of Kota also there were shown insect remains, including a beautiful wing-cover of a cockroach, with the patches of color still preserved. From the same part of the country there had been procured very perfect specimens of the teeth of Ceratodus, from which Dr. Oldham would be able to throw considerable light on that peculiar genus of fishes. Mangali, (where had been found the Labyrinthodont, described by Owen under the name of Brachyops laticeps,) contributed to the collection the jaw of a small Saurian, together with an abundance of entomostracean and vegetable remains. The argillaceous strata of Kampti and its neighbourhood was represented by an insect-wing, and a number of the Ferns, stems, and seed-vessels, for which that formation is remarkable. Alongside of these there were placed similar Ferns, stems, and seed-vessels from the coal-beds of the northern part of Nagpoor Province, from which it was very apparent that the strata in both localities were the same. Of the five genera of Ferns that are common to both, only two, Sphenopteris and Pecopteris possess pinnate fronds, the other three, Glossopteris, Taeniopteris, and Cyclopter is being characterized by simple or individual leaves. Mr. Hislop remarked that the genus Taniopteris occupied a sort of middle position between the other two, agreeing with Glossopteris in having a midrib, while Cyclopteris has none, and resembling Cyclopteris in its furcating venation, while that of Glossopteris is reticulate. The species of Cyclopteris discovered in Europe, as the name implies, are of a circular form, but those met with in the rocks of Nagpoor province, for the most part, are in shape like segments of a circle. In the beginning of 1853 Mr. Hislop submitted to the Society a paper, in which he showed the connection in age, between the labyrinthodont strata of Mangali, the fern-sandstone of Kampti, &c., and the coal-beds of the Damuda basin, all of which, he conceived, lay at the base of the Jurassic formation. On the present occasion the reverend gentleman laid before the meeting fossils illustrative of the conviction; and added that the progress of discovery had not materially altered his estimate of the age, which, if it was not the oldest Jura, might be considered the upper Trias, - the formation immediately underneath. The fossils found in the Mahadewa sandstone comprise exogenous stems, which, at the foot of Sitabaldi Hill, are completely charred, and a single specimen of Paludina found at the same locality, from the latter of which it is inferred that the formation, like that of the underlying sandstone, is of freshwater origin, though considerably

numerous and interesting, consisting of remains of saurians, fishes both ganoid and cycloid, shells bivalve and univalve, and fruits and seeds. Among the saurian remains was a head, with a row of small teeth on the palate, as well as of larger, conical ones on the jaws. The freshwater shells from the intertrappean strata of Nagpoor were compared with a quantity of shells from a marine or estuary deposit found in connection with trap at Kateru near Rajamandri, and two of the species, a Physa and Paludina, were evidently common to both localities, demonstrating the perfect contemporaneousness of the formations at the two places. As the facies of the Kateru shells is Eocene, confirmation is hereby afforded to the argument, by which Mr. H. in 1853, from an examination of the freshwater fossils themselves, endeavoured to prove that Mr. Carter's "Intertrappean Formation" belongs to that oldest division of the tertiary; and as at Phizdura, in the Province of Nagpoor, the intertrappean freshwater shells are found mingled with the bones. of huge mammals similar to those of the sub-trappean deposit at Jubbulpoor, decided evidence is hereby obtained in favour of the position that these huge animals belonged to the Eocene age, and that they are to be separated from the more recent gigantic remains disinterred from the banks of the Nurbudda with which they have been too frequently confounded.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING.

MONDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER 1858.

The Secretary, at the request of the President, read the following report of the Committee of Management for the past year :

GENTLEMEN,-During the past year eight Resident, and one Nonresident, members have been elected, that is, six more than last year.

To the library 185 works, or 248 volumes, have been added by purchase; and 207 works, or 406 volumes, have been rebound; 32 volumes repaired, and 84 newspaper files bound: 137 books, including pamphlets, have also been added by presents. The Committee regret that they have not been able to complete the catalogue, and they fear that, from want of funds and a proper person to superintend and complete the various disjointed parts, it will be long a desideratum.

There have been 17 donations for the Museum, consisting chiefly of coins from Government; while the whole of the coins belonging to the Society have been set in order, catalogued, and described by your President, who, by his indefatigable labours during the past year, has

recorded the contents of, and completed and rendered instructive this department of the Society, so far as it extends.

With the exception of the President's reports on the coins that have been submitted to the Society for examination, there have only been four Original Communications during the past year, hence there has not been sufficient for the publication of another number of the Journal.

The total number of periodicals, calendars, army-lists, and almanacks received by the Society during the past year has been 89, viz. 67 literary and scientific, of which 24 are presented by the Societies who publish them; 29 newspapers (European and Indian), and 10 calendars, almanacks, and army-lists.

The Society's funds, as per balance-sheet laid before the meeting, shows a little larger sum in favour of the Society than that of last year; but had the disbursement for books purchased by the Society independently of the booksellers' selection, together with the disbursement for binding, been equally great with that of last year, there would have been much less; especially if another number of the Society's Journal had been published. Hence the present balance becomes available for these purposes during the ensuing year.

Besides this there are outstanding subscriptions to the amount of Rupees 945, for the recovery of which your Committee would suggest that the Secretary be requested to repeat his applications at the instance of the meeting.

The Rev. Dr. Wilson, Honorary President, seconded by Bhawoo Dajee, Esq. moved that "the Committee's report be received, with the Society's best thanks to the President, Vice-Presidents, Members of Committee, and Auditors, for the trouble they have taken, and the satisfactory way in which they have conducted the affairs of the Society during the past year," which was carried unanimously.

Dr. Wilson also, as President of the Cave-Temple Commission, stated that, the Shastree, for whom the Society received a monthly allowance from Government, had been engaged under him during the past year in deciphering and collecting the Cave-Temple Inscriptions; that he had finished those of Carlee and Junir, and was going on with those of Ajunta, and that during next year, he (Dr. Wilson) hoped to be sufficiently advanced to be able to present a third "Memoir" to the Society on the oldest remains of art, and notes for history, in Western India.

In conformity with Article X. of the Society's rules, the following gentlemen were then elected for the Committee of Management, Museum Committee, and Auditors for the ensuing year; the President

remaining, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and Auditors, being considered re-elected.

To fill the vacancies among the Vice-Presidents caused by the departure of General Waddington, C.B., for Europe, and the painful loss sustained by the Society in the death of the Rev. P. Anderson, the following members, viz. Colonel G. Pope and A. H. Leith, Esq., M.D., were elected.

It was proposed by Dr. Leith, Vice-President, seconded by the Secretary, and unanimously carried-"That the Statistical Review' should be added to the list of Periodicals, and that the 'Journal of the Royal Geographical Society' should be purchased from that Society, supposing the latter should not continue to present it."

The business of the meeting having been concluded, it was adjourned to Thursday, the 9th December.

FROM THE 29TH NOV. 1858 TO THE 28TH NOV. 1859.

A letter was read from M. J. L. Laporte, dated "Bordeaux, 1st September 1858," soliciting exchange of Indian insects, especially Lepidoptera, and marine and freshwater shells for the like, which he possesses from different parts of Europe, Africa, and America.

The Secretary was requested to take the first opportunity of making public M. Laporte's request.

Committee Meeting.-At a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, held in its Library

Rooms on Tuesday, the 22nd February 1859, for the purpose of making arrangements for obtaining access to the galleries of the Library on the inside, which would become necessary after erecting the statue of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Bart., in the central door-way of the Library,—— the following correspondence was laid before the meeting:

No. 400 OF 1859.

To the SECRETARY B. B. R. Asiatic Society.

SIR, I am directed to transmit to you the accompanying extract (paragraph 3) of a Memorandum submitted by me to the Honorable Board, and to inform you that the arrangements therein suggested have been sanctioned by Government.

(Signed) H. YOUNG, Chief Secretary. Extract (paragraph 3) of a Memorandum by the Chief Secretary :"It seems quite essential, to the preservation of the interior of the Town Hall in decent order, that the upper story should be cleared of the public offices of the Educational and Alienation Departments which are now held there. The Chief Secretary would therefore suggest that, the Alienation Department be at once removed to the quarters referred to in the 4th paragraph of the Committee's letter now under disposal, and that the Educational Department be placed in a room on the basement story now occupied by the Geographical Society, which could be well accommodated in the smaller of the two rooms now occupied as the Educational Office; the other room being made over to the Royal Asiatic Society, by whom additional space is greatly required for the disposal of their valuable Library, and to allow of the removal from the vestibule (which they now disfigure) of the staircases by which access is obtained to the gallery.

(Signed) H. YOUNG, Chief Secretary." Bombay Castle, 14th February 1859.

The Committee, having examined the Society's rooms and the office of the Director of Public Instruction with reference to the arrangements, which would be necessary for obtaining access to the galleries after erecting the statue of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Bart., in the central door-way of the Library, and after the making over to the Society of the room now used for the office of the Director of Public Instruction, resolved-"That the staircases should be set up in the east corner of the Museum and at the east end of the gallery in the office of the Director of Public Instruction respectively, and that door-ways