1833.] Miscellaneous. 557 
The above facts, the pains taken by Dewan Kanu Jer, in translating from Eng- 
lish, which he understood very imperfectly, and in which (as he acknowledges) he 
was greatly assisted by the kindness of Henry Dovetas, Esq. of Patna, and his ex- 
tracts from the papers of the Delhi mathematician, are strong proofs, notwithstand- 
ing the present fashionable doctrines, of the value set by Natives on translations 
from English works, when well chosen and judiciously executed. 
Turuzzoot Hosain Kuaun’s choice of Arabic for the vehicle of his translations 
is also a proof that intelligent Natives do not see the advantages of proscribing that 
language so clearly as we. 
[To be Continued.] 
Il.—Madras Journal of Literature and Science, published under the auspices of 
the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society, edited by 
the Secretary, No. 1, October 1833, price to Subscribers 3 Rs. per quarter. 
We cannot but feel highly complimented by the appearance of a new periodical 
at Madras, professedly founded on the model of our own journal, and imitating 
our arrangements even to the style of the title page, the price, the number of pages, 
and the gratuitous conduct of the editorial department. Welook uponit not asa 
rival but as a powerful auxiliary, and we hail it as a guarantee of the revival of 
the efforts of the Madras Literary Society. The publication of Researches in an 
occasional quarto volume at distant periods has been adduced as a bar rather than 
an incentive to contributions of a learned nature, while the limited sale of such 
works makes the printing charge fall heavy on a small Society: this has been 
partially felt in Calcutta; and it has led at Bombay, as at Madras, to the absorp- 
tion ofthe institutions there into branches of the Royal Association at home. Under 
the new system however of giving rapid publication, free of cost, to short interesting 
and ephemeral papers (in which the Bombay Geographical Society may also easily 
join by a similar journal for the west of India), the independence and orientality 
of each might still be assured ; while by a combination of the means and labours 
of the three Indian Societies, a volume of Researches might simultaneously be 
kept in hand at Calcutta for their more erudite and lengthened communications. We 
haye not room to notice the contents of the Madras Journal at present, but we shall 
not scruple to extract matter that will be interesting to our own readers. We sin- 
cerely regret the untimely end of Lieut.-Colonel Coomss, whom we perceive to 
have been one of the chief promoters of its establishment. 
VIII. —Miscellaneous. 
Circular Instructions from the Geological Society, for the Collection of Geological 
specimens, with a plate. 
[We beg the attention of our Indian geologists to these simple instructions ; to 
which we have only to add that numbers should be put on the stones, where 
possible, as paper labels are soon, destroyed by insects in this country.] 
1. The Geological Society begs to impress upon the minds of all collectors, that 
the chief objects of their research should be specimens of all those rocks, marls, or 
clays, which contain shells, plants, or any sort of petrifaction. 
2. The petrifactions should, if possible, be kept united with portions of the rock, 
sand, or clay, in which they are found; it being more desirable that the mass should 
