XV'ill CONTEXTS. 



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 No. 52.— APRIL. 

 I.— Account of the Mountain Tribes on the extreme N. E. Frontier of Bengal. 



By J. McCosh, Civil Assistant Surgeon, Goalpa>a, .. .. 193 



II.— On the method employed to remove the Vaulted Roof of St. Peter's 



Church in Fort William, illustrated by a Section, (Plate V.) . . 208 



III. — Statistical, Agricultural, and Revenue Return of Muthra District, made 



up to 1st October, 1835. By Capt. R. Wroughton, Rev. Surveyor, .. 216 



IV. — Notes on the State of the Arts of Cotton Spinning, Weaving, Printing, 



and Dyeing in Nepal. By Dr. A. Campbell, attached to the Residency, . . 219 



V. — Summary Description of some New Species of Falconidae. By B. H. 



Hodgson, Esq. .. .. .. .. .. ..227 



VI. — Synoptical Description of sundry New Animals, enumerated in the 



Catalogue of Nipalese Mammals. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. .. 231 



VII. — Note on the occasional existence of fresh-water on the surface of the 



ocean. By Mr. C. Brownlow, .. .. .- .. 239 



VIII. — Note on the Cervus Duvaucelii of Cuvier, or C. Elaphoides and Bah- 



raiya of Hodgson, .. .. .. .. .. .. 240 



IX. — Horary Observations of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Wet-bulb 

 Thermometer, made at Calcutta on the 2lst and 22nd of March, 1836. By 

 Mr. H. Barrow, H. C. Mathematical Instrument-maker, .. .. 243 



X. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, .. .. .. .. 245 



XI. — Miscellaneous : — 



1. — Postscript to the Account of the Wild Goat of Nepal, printed in the 



Sept. No. of the Journal, page 490. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. .. 254 



2. — Notice of the Basilosaurus, a new marine fossil Saurian, ^discovered 

 in America. By H. Piddington, Esq. .. .. .. .. ib. 



3. — The Balloon, .. .. .. .. .. .. 255 



XII. — Meteorological Register, .. .. .. .. .. 256 



No. 53.— MAY. 



I. — Joh61e and its former Dependencies of Jomp61e Gominchi. By Lieut. 



J. F- Newbold, A. D. C. to Brigadier General Wilson, C. B. .. .. 257 



II. — Interpretation of the Tibetan Inscription on a Bhotian Banner, taken in 

 Assam, and presented to the Asiatic Society by Captain Bogle.. By M. 

 Alexander Csoma Koros. [See PI. VI. fig. 3.] .. .. . 264 



III. — Note on some of the Indo-Scythic Coins found by Mr. C. Masson at 



Beghram, in the Kohistan of Kabul. By Johannes Avdall, Esq. M. A. S. 266 



IV. — Notes on the Geology, &c. of the Country in the Neighbourhood of 

 Maulamyeng (vulg. Moulmein). By Capt. W. Foley, .. .. 269 



V. — On the Revolution of the Seasons. By the Rev. R. Everest, .. ..281 



VI. — Recent Discovery of Fossil Bones in Perim Island, in the Cambay Gulph. 



By Baron Hugel and Mr. Geo. Fulljames, .. .. .. 288 



VII. — Table of Sub-Himalayan Fossil Genera, in the D£dupur Collection. By 



Lieuts. W. E. Baker and H. M. Durand, Engineers, .. .. 291 



VIII. — Note on the Teeth of the Mastodon a dents etroites of the Siwalik 



Hills. By Captain P. T. Cautley, PI. XI. .. .. ..294 



IX. — Meteorological Register kept at Bangalore. By Dr. J. Mouat, Medical 



Surgeon, 13th Dragoons, .. .. .. .. 296 



X. — Meteorological Observations taken every hour, at Bangalore, in the Hos- 

 pital of H. M. 13th Dragoons, from 6 A. m. of the 21st to 6 p. M. of the 

 22nd March, 1836, inclusive, in conformity with Sir W. Herschel's in- 

 structions. By the same, .. .. .. .. 293 



