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From LIEUT.-COL. H. YULE,

Secy. to the Govt. of India.

TO COL. A. CUNNINGHAM, Engineers,

General.

Public Works Department,

Fort William, 31st January, 1862.

SIR,--With reference to what passed at your interview with His Excellency the Viceroy at Allahabad in November last, and past demi-official correspondence, His Excellency the Governor General in Council has been pleased to appoint you Archæological Surveyor to the Government of India with effect from the 1st December last.

2. Whilst so employed, you will receive a staff salary of Rs. 450 a month in addition to the pay and allowances of your rank.

3. You will also be at liberty to expend money not exceeding Rs. 250 in any one month, on account of measurements, excavations, drawing, and minor mechanical assistance, for which and for your allowances you can submit monthly contingent bills to the Controller and Examiner, Bengal.

4. The course of your investigations will be that sketched out in the Memorandum which you submitted to His Excellency the Governor-General, passing from South Behar into Tirhoot, Goruckpoor, and Fyzabad.

5. I am to request that you will be good enough to furnish this Department regularly with a brief monthly statement of the localities and general character of the objects that have occupied you during the month.

I have, &c.,

(Sd.) H. YULE, Lieut.-Colonel,

Secy. to the Govt. of India,

From LIEUT.-COL. H. YULE,

Secy, to the Govt of India.

TO COL. A. CUNNINGHAM,

Archæological Surveyor to the Govt. of India.

Public Works Department,

General.

Fort William, 21st February, 1862.

Antiquities.

SIR, I am directed to send for your use two printed copies of

your own Memo. on the investigation of the archæological remains of Upper India, and of the Governor General's Minute on the subject. These papers have been communicated to the Asiatic Society for publication in their Journal.

2. Whilst looking up former records in connexion with archæological investigation, an endeavour was made, both in the Home Department here, and by a reference to Allahabad, to trace the reports of Major Kittoe's investigations, whilst he was employed on a duty resembling your own, between 1847 and his death. Though it appears from the records that Major Kittoe made several journeys in Behar, made many sketches, and had drawings in preparation, no trace is found of the submission of any report of his operations or their result, nor of the drawings which were prepared.

3. It is possible that you may be able to throw some light on the matter from your personal knowledge, and this the Government would be glad to receive. But the fact as it stands is extremely unsatisfactory; and it makes it necessary that the Governor-General in Council should desire you to consider it nothing less than an absolute duty to submit full particulars of your researches, and of their results, so far as they may have been arrived at, as speedily as possible after the close of each season in the field, and certainly before the commencement of the next.

I have, &c.,

(Sd.) H. YULE, Lieut.-Colonel,
Secy. to the Govt. of India.

2. From Mr. Blyth, a memoir on the living Asiatic species of Rhinoceros.

3. From Babu Radha Nath Sikdar, abstracts of Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's office in the month of September last.

4. From Mr. W. T. Blanford, a paper containing an account of a visit to Puppadoung, an extinct volcano in Upper Burmah.

This paper was read by Mr. Oldham, who added some remarks on the geological features described, and pointed out the interest of the discovery and of the deductions Mr. Blanford had drawn from it. 5. From Rev. K. M. Banerjea, a dissertation on the Márkandeya Purána.

The dissertation will

appear as a preface to Mr. Banerjea's

edition of the Márkandeya Purána now in course of publication in the Bibl. Indica. It was read to the meeting, and a vote of thanks was given to the author.

The Librarian submitted his report of the accessions to the Library since the Meeting in December last.

The following books and periodicals have been added to the Library since the meeting in December last.

Presented.

Etudes sur L'Astronomie Indienne, Par M. Biot, (Etrait du Journal des Savants).-BY THE AUTHOR.

Traduction du Surya-Siddhanta, Par M. Biot.-BY THE SAME.

Brata-Joeda, Door A. B. Cohen Stuart, 2 Vols.-BY THE BATAVIAN ACA

DEMY.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, (Paleontologia Indica).BY THE SUPERINTENDENT GEOL. SURVEY OF INDIA.

Journal Bombay Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 6, No. 21.—BY THE SOCIETY. Annals of Indian Administration, Parts 3 and 4 of Vol. 5, for Sept. and Dec. 1861.-BY THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT.

Annual Report of the Branch of the Marine Department under control of the Government of India, for 1860-61.-BY THE SAME.

Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Government Observatory, Bombay in 1860.-BY THE BOMBAY GOVERNMENT.

Vividhártha Sangraha, Nos. 77 and 78.—BY THE EDITOR.

Die Lieder des Hafis, Vol. 3, Part 3. By Professor Hermann Brockhaus. -BY THE AUTHOR.

The Calcutta Christian Observer for December, January and February.BY THE EDITOR.

Notes on Medical Cinchona Barks of New Granada. By H. Karsten.BY THE MADRAS GOVERNMENT.

Diwan Nazim.-BY NAWAB MEHDEE ALI KHAN, BAHADUR.

Cours D'Hindoustani, being a Discourse by M. GARCIN DE TASSY.-By THE AUTHOR.

Journal Asiatique, Tome XVIII., No. 70.-BY THE PARIS SOCIETY. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 6, No. 1.—BY THE So

CIETY.

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 3, Part 3.-BY THE ACADEMY.

Panoramic Views of Kashmir drawn by Capt. T. G. Montgomerie, 3 copies.-BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL OF INDIA.

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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Part XI. 1860-61.—BY THE INSTITUTION.

A List of Members, Officers, &c. of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, for 1860.-BY THE SAME.

The Oriental Baptist for December, January and February.-BY THE EDITOR.

The Oriental Christian Spectator for October, November and December.— BY THE EDITOR.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 11, No. 46.-BY THE SOCIETY.

Report of the Committee of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, from 1st May to 31st October, 1861.-BY THE CHAMBER.

An Introduction to Indian Meteorology, By Babu R. N. Sikdar.-By the AUTHOR.

Report on the Administration of the N. W. Provinces, for 1860-61.—By THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT.

Report of the British Association for the advancement of Science, Oxford, 1860.-BY THE ASSOCIATION.

Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No. LXI. New Series, with 20 sheets of Sketches to illustrate Capt. Chambers' Report on Irrigation from the Taptee River, contained in them.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department, No. 29, containing Progress Report of the Forests of the Tenasserim and Martaban Provinces for 1858-59 and 1859-60.-BY THE SAME. Selections from the Records of the Madras Government, No. 71, containing Administration Report of the Madras Public Works for 1860-61.-By THE MADRAS GOVT.

Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Military Department, No. 2, containing Report on the extent and nature of the Sanitary Establishments for European troops in the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

Weber's Indische Studien, Vol. VI.-BY THE AUTHOR.

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 15, Parts 3 and 4.-BY THE SOCIETY.

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Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, Vol. 7, Nos. 1 to 9.-BY THE LYCEUM.

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Defence of Dr. Gould by the Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory. -BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE OBSERVATORY.

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Reply to the "Statement of the Trustees" of the Dudley Observatory, by BENJ. A. GOULD, Jr.—BY THE SAME.

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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections,-Tables, Meteorological and Physical.-BY THE S. INSTITUTION.

Meteorology in its connection with Agriculture, by Prof. J. Henry.-By THE AUTHOR.

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. III. Part 3 and Vol. IV. Part 4.-BY THE ACADEMY.

Report on Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts. By Dr. E. Jarvis.— BY THE AUTHOR.

Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vols. 5 and 6.—BY THE SOCIETY.

First and second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the northern, middle and southern counties of Arkansas, for 1857, '58, '59 and '60.-By THE GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3, from May 1852 to May 1857.—BY THE ACADEMY.

Ditto of the Semi-Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society.-By THE SOCIETY.

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from January to December, 1856.-BY THE ACADEMY.

Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Iowa, Parts 1 and 2.BY THE GOVERNOR OF IOWA.

Statistical Report on the sickness and mortality in the U. States, from 1855 to January 1860.-BY THE SECRETARY OF WAR, U. States.

Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey for 1856.-By PROF. BACHE, Supdt. U. S. Coast Survey.

Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vols. 9, 11 and 12.-BY THE S. INSTITUTION.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, for 1856, 1857, 1858 and 1859.—BY THE SAME.

An account of the Smithsonian Institution, its founder, building, operations, &c. By W. J. Rhees.-By the Same.

The Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. 1, No. 4.— BY THE SAME.

Astronomical Observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge. By the Rev. James Challis, M. A., F. R. S., &c. Vol. XIX. For the years 1852, 1853 and 1854.-BY THE SYNDICATE OF THE OBSERVATORY.

Annual Report of the Administration of the Bombay Presidency, for 1860-61.-BY THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT.

Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Public Works Department, No. 35, containing Reports on the Teak Forests in Pegu and the Tenasserim and Martaban Provinces, for 1860-61.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

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