68 J. Beames — Notes on the History of Orissa, [Maech, 



To read fcbe instrument there may be a series of vertical graduations 

 or a cathetometer may be used or a photograpbic self-recording apparatus 

 worked on the usual well known principles, or, perhaps best of all, a thin 

 horizontal stilet may be carried by the rod or from the edge of the disc 

 which will trace a curve upon a vertical sheet of glazed card coated with 

 lamp-black, the card being driven horizontally at a slow uniform rate by 

 clockwork. 



Mr. Blanfoet) agreed with Mr. Bridges Lee that a good simple instru- 

 ment for recording the deposit of dew would be a very useful addition to 

 the equipment of Meteorological Observatories. He hardly felt in a 

 position to offer an opinion on the value of that described by Mr. Bridges 

 Lee. The principle involved was obviously that of the hydrometer, and 

 therefore perfectly valid ; but, in matters of this kind, so much depended 

 on the practical details of the arrangement in which the principle was 

 carried out, that, until one saw the instrument before one, it was impossible 

 to form an idea of its practical working. 



3. I^otes on the History of Orissa under Muhammadan, MaratTia and 

 English rule. — By John Beames, B. C. S. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper is a collection of all the information regarding the past 

 history of Orissa in general and of the district of Balasore in particular 

 which Mr. Beames has been able to collect from various sources. It was 

 written as Chapter II of a manual of the district of Balasore, of which Mr. 

 Beames was Collector during 1869-73, but was never published. Recent- 

 ly, being engaged in some researches regarding the history of his present 

 official charge, the Burdwan division, Mr. Beames has had occasion to 

 refer to it, and as he knows of no compilation containing all the facts con- 

 tained in it, he has thought that it might prove useful if it were printed. 



De. Rajendealala Mitea commented at some length on the paper. 

 He thought Mr. Beames had brought to a focus a large mass of information, 

 and put it forth in a very readable form, but he had made a sad omission, 

 and that detracted much from the value of his essay as a historical contri- 

 bution. Sterling's memoir in the Besearches of the Society contains a 

 very full analysis of Orissan Chronicles of the Hindu period, and most of 

 its shortcomings had been suppHed in Dr. Hunter's excellent history, 

 which not only corrects all such errors as were unavoidable in a first 

 attempt, but supplies a precis prepared by the late Mr. Blochmann of all 

 the information to be had in the works of Muhammadan historians. In 

 the volume devoted to Orissa in the ' Bengal Gazetteer' Dr. Hunter has fur- 

 ther improved upon his previous work, and Mr. Toynbee's ' History of 

 GrissA* gives a very full account of the British connection with Orissa. 



