76 C. S. Banarji — Tlic Kaliiiur Range. [Maech, 



towards the land, an upper current flow in the same direction and the pres- 

 sure at the land surface being exalted by this access o£ air, over that at the 

 sea-surface, a land wind will be produced blowing towards the sea. If 

 then this theory be true we ought to find a greater pressure over the land 

 in the early morning, over the sea in the afternoon. Hitherto, however, 

 there had been no means of verifying this inference and so verifying the 

 theory. This verification had lately been supplied by data furnished by 

 the log books collected by the London Meteorological office, copies of which 

 (relating to Indian Seas) had recently been made for the Indian Meteoro- 

 logical office, under the sanction of the Secretary of State, and with the 

 permission of the Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society. The 

 logs as yet received, related only to the month of January. On extracting 

 from them the barometric observations made at intervals of 4 hours, be- 

 tween N. lat. 20° and the Sand Heads (lat. 21° 3'), and taking the means 

 of all those made at corresponding hours, the result showed with consider- 

 able accuracy the daily oscillation of pressure at an average distance of 70 

 miles from the land, since the observations were sufficiently numerous to 

 eliminate all temporary irregularities of importance. When the curve 

 representing the diurnal oscillation was computed from these data by Bessel's 

 interpolation formula, and compared with that of Calcutta for the same 

 month, it was found that the mean pressure of the two places being assumed 

 to be equal, the pressure at the land station was in excess from 1 a. m. to 

 1 p. M. and that given by the ship observations in excess from 1 p. m. to 

 1 A. M., thus offering a very satisfactory verification of the theory just 

 sketched out. 



2. The Kaimur Mange. — IBy Chandea Sekhaea Bai^aeji. 

 (Abstract.) 



The author describes the principal geographical and geological features 

 of the Kaimur Mountains. The range is called by the natives and in the 

 Puranas ' Yindhya-mali' to which properly speaking it also belongs. An- 

 other name for it is Kairo-mali, ' the range of the Kaira-Des,' and it is 

 probable that the word ' Kaimur' is a corruption of ' Kairomali.' 



The legend connected with the Karamnasa and Son rivers are given, 

 and the paper concludes with a description of several shrines near Rohtas- 

 garh. The author also gives two inscriptions, of Samvat 1173 and 1271. 



The paper will be printed in No. 1, Pt. I, for 1877. 



3. Description of Ruticilla Shisticeps. — Bg W. T. Blanfoed, Esq., 



F. R. S. 



This paper will appear in the Journal, Part II, with a coloured Plate. 



