'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎58] (74/496)

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by Captain W ingate bad caused the transmission of the other specimens, it was
hoped that the high value set upon such things would induce gentlemen into whose
hands they came, to transmit them, along with all the information that could be ob
tained regarding them, to the Society. The Secretary stated that he had taken
care to forward all reports on these subjects to Professor Powell, who was collect
ing information on the subject of serolites.
The following donations and letters were laid on the table :—
Papers —By the author, through Captain S. B Haines, I. N., Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Aden.—Meteorological Observations as taken on Shum Shum and Seerah Is
land, at Aden, &c., for the month of October 1848. By Sergeant W. Mayes j with
a letter dated Seerah, the 14th November 1848.
By the Author.—Continuation of the Narrative of a Voyage in search of the
Crew of the Ship Charles Eaton, performed in the year 1836. By Commander
G. B. Kempthorne, I. N.
Books. —By Government.—Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern
Asia, for September, 1848, vol. 2nd, No. 9. With a letter dated 18th November,
No. 4024 of 1848, from J. G. Lumsden, Esq., Secretary to Government, General
Department.
By Government,—Geographical and Statistical Memoir of a Survey of the
Neilgherry Mountains, by Captain J. Ouchterlony, in 1847.—With a letter dated
28th November, No. 4136 of 1848, from J. G. Lumsden, Esq., Secretary to Go
vernment, General Department.
By the Hakluyt Society, through Smith, Elder and Co., of London.—Select
Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his
fourth voyage to the New World, translated and edited by R. H. Major, Esq., of
the British Museum. Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Kt, on his voyage
to the South Seas in the year 1593. The discovery of the large, rich, and beau
tiful empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden city of Momoa
(which the Spaniards called El Dorado), &c., performed in the year 1595, by Sip
W. Raleigh, Kt.—With a letter from Smith, Elder and Co., dated London, 19th
September, 1848.
By the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay.—A complete set of their
Transactions ; with a letter dated 20tli November, 1848.
By the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society —A complete set of their
J ournals.
Letters. —From Lieutenant Colonel P. M. Melvill, Secretary to Government,
Marine Department, dated 18th November, No 1723 of 1848, intimating that the
Society were to put themselves in direct communication with Captain E. P*
Del’Hoste on the subject of a series of Tidal and Meteorological Observations, pro
posed to be made under the supervision of the Society at Viziadroog, &c. &c.
From Captain E. P. Del’Hoste, dated Phoonda Ghat, the 24th November, No.
220 of 1848, intimating that he had been directed by Government to place him
self in communication with the Society for the purpose of setting up a Tide-gauge