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The following books, received from the book-sellers : 



Heeren's, Asiatic Nations, 3 vols. 



Rosen, Corporis Radicum Sanscritum Prolusio, 1 toI. P. 



Radices Sanscritse, 1 vol. 



Rig Vedse Specimen, 1 vol. 



Freytag, Arabischen Verskunst, 1 vol. 



Dictionary Arabico-Latinum, 1st and 2nd vols. 



Kosegarten, Chrestomathia Arabica, 1 vol. 

 Benary, Nalodaya Sanscritum carmen, 1 vol. 

 Bohlien, Carmen Arabicum Amali dictum, 1 vol. P, 

 Jernour's Treatise on Languages, 1 vol. 

 Tyerman and Bennet's voyages and travels, 2 vola. 

 Pricbard's Celtic Nations, 1 vol. 



Upham's Sacred and Historical books of Ceylon, 3 vols. 

 Malcolm on the Government of India, 1 vol. 

 Brydges Dynasty of the Kajars, 1 vol. 

 Fairbolme's Geology of Scripture, 1 vol. 

 Historical Sketch of Sanscrit Literature, 1 vol. 

 Alison's Physiology and Pathology, 1 vol. 

 David's Turkish Grammar, 1 vol. 

 British India, 3 vols. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, middle ages, 1 vol. 



Wilken's Mohammedi Filii Chondschahi, vulgo Mirchondi Historia Gasnevida- 

 rum, 1 vol. 



Lassen, Gymnosophista, 1 vol. P. 



Physical. 



A native talwdr, and three water-fowls, from Assam, were pi-esented by Dr. 

 Burlini. 



Read, a letter from G. A. Bushby, Esq. Secretary to Government, commu- 

 nicating an account of the boring experiment lately conducted by Captain 

 Grant in Cutch. [Printed in the present number.] 



Read extracts from the Third Annual Report of the Society of the 

 Natural History at the Mauritius, presented by M. Jul. Desjardins. 

 Secretaire et Membre Fondateur, dated 24th August, 1832. 



Read a note from Captain Jenkins, forwarding specimens of a rich ore 

 of mammellated and stalactitic manganese, found in the Ajmir mines ; and 

 also of shot manufactured on the spot by Captain Dixon from the Ajmir lead. 



Read a letter from Colonel Watson, presenting further specimens of coal, 

 iron, and other productions of the Kasya hills. 



Read a note from Ensign Newbold, forwarding the specimens of granity, 

 gold dust, and plants referred to in his account of an excursion to the sum- 

 mit of Mount Ophir in the Malay peninsula. 



[See a note by Dr. Wallich on the plants, inserted in the present No.] 



Read a letter from Captain P. T. Cautley, Superintendant of the Doab 

 Canal, announcing his discovery of the remains of an ancient city under- 

 ground, in the neighbourhood of Seharanpur, and presenting two silver and 

 24 copper coins found there, and a fragment of bone. 



[This announcement is printed in the present number.] 



