38 Papers. [MarCH, 



2. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Veninsulay No. 15. — By Sir 

 George King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., late Superintendent of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden^ Calcutta, and Mr. James Sykes Gamble, M.A., 

 C.I.E., F.R.S., late of the Indian Forest Department. 



(Abstract.) 



The present paper contains practically the completion of the 

 account of the large National order Buhiacece. Owing to an accident, 

 it has unfortunately been found necessary to postpone the publication 

 of the descriptions of the species of the genus Psychotria (numbering 

 about 45) until the next paper of the present series. A key is here 

 given to the remaining twenty-three genera of the family, the key to 

 the first thirty having appeared in the last paper. In all 123 species, 

 belonging to 22 genera, are now described ; and, of these, 47 species are 

 believed to be new to Science. 



3. The Buddhist Doctrine of ''Middle Path.''-— By Pandit Satis 

 Chandra Yidtabhushan, M.A. The paper will not be published. 



(Abstract. ) 



The pandit explains the doctrine of the ' middle path ' from two 

 standpoints, ethical and metaphysical. Ethically the middle path con- 

 sists in the avoidance of the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence 

 and excessive self-mortificafcion ; metaphysically it consists in the avoid- 

 ance of the two extremes of a belief in the reality of the world and a 

 belief in its unreality. The world only appears to exist in virtue of 

 conditions or relations. The relations are of four kinds : the causal con- 

 dition as in the relation of the seed to the germ ; the supporting condi- 

 tion as in the relation of fuel to fire ; the condition of succession as 

 between prior and posterior events ; and the defining condition as in the 

 relation of the eye to colour. 



4. Fvidences of Slave trade in Moghul Empire. — By Mahamahopa- 

 dhyata Haraprasad Shasthi, M.A. 



5. Shoulder-headed and other forms of stone implements in the Santal 

 Parganas. — By Rev. P. 0. BoDDiNG. 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Bodding describes five new forms of stone implements found in 

 the Santal Parganas. 



1. Some wedge-shaped axes curved in a peculiar manner, the 

 npper side being convex and the other concave. 



