Rev. F. Mason on the 



glacier. This bad weather appears to have had considerable 

 effect in retarding the motion of the ice. 



I may as well here mention that the motion of the Mer de 

 Glace, as measured by Professor Forbes, varied from 27 to 

 9 inches in 24 hours, in different parts of the glacier, and at 

 different times between the months of June and September. 

 The motion of the middle part of the glacier of the Aar is 

 also stated by M. Martins to be about 71 metres per annum, 

 which amounts to about 71- inches in 24 hours. 



The elevation of the foot of the glacier, where the Pindur 

 leaves it, determined by the comparison of corresponding 

 barometrical observations, made there and at Almora (5586 

 feet), is 11,929 feet above the sea. The elevation of the 

 station wliere the theodolite was fixed to measure the motion 

 of the glacier, was similarly found to be 12,946 feet ; and 

 the elevation of the surface of the glacier near its lower end, 

 at a distance of about 6000 feet from the theodolite station, 

 being about 12,140 feet ; the slope of the surface of the 

 glacier is about 7-^ degrees. — Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, No. xx., p. 203, New Series. 



The Gum Kino of the Tenasserim Provinces. By the 

 Rev. F. Mason. 



In a valuable article by Dr Royle on Gum Kino, reprinted 

 in the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society 

 of India, which ostensibly enumerates all the various regions 

 from which it has been imported into England, there is no 

 mention of this article being imported from this coast. Yet 

 long before Dr Royle compiled that communication, more 

 than one consignment had been made by parties in Maul- 

 main to houses in London of gum kino to the amount of a 

 thousand pounds. 



It was brought to Maulmain by an English merchant from 

 the Shan States, and stated by him, as our Commissioner at 

 the time informed the writer, to be the production of the 

 Pa-douk, the same tree as the one in Maulmain thus de- 



