1835.] Asiatic Society. 409 



Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Hi- 

 malayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere, by J. F. Royle, Esq. F. L. S., 

 and G. S. M. R. A. S. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia Foreign Eminent Men, vol. 1st. 



Library of Useful Knowledge Vaud's Algebraical Geometry. 



A cylindric pedestal, containing on its surface the three principal divi- 

 sions of the year in use in India ; viz. the siderial, the luni-solar, and the 

 lunar, contrived to exhibit on inspection the corresponding day of the 

 European Calendar, by revolving rings, was presented by the Secretary. 



Literary and- Antiquities. 



Read a letter from Ensign Newbold, forwarding an account of Sungie 

 Ujong, one of the states in the interior of Malacca, with statistical infor- 

 mation obtained from native sources. 



Mr. Newbold also transmitted an original Malay letter from a claimant to the 

 sovereignty of Menangk£bowe, to Mr. Westerhout, a gentleman of influence at 

 Malacca, couched in the following laconic terms, and sealed with a signet large 

 enough to cover the whole of the writing, (similar but double the diameter of those 

 published in Plate XII. of the present vol.) 



— " The peace of God, &c. &c." " There are three hereditary kings in this world, 

 viz. the kings of Rum, China, and Paggaruyong (Menangk&bowe) . Should you ac- 

 knowledge my descent, you will answer this epistle." 



A description of the Ruins of the Temple of Harshd Deva, in the Shekd- 

 wati country, by Sergeant E. Dean, in illustration of an accurate facsi- 

 mile of the ancient Sanscrit inscription discovered there and taken off by 

 himself, was read ; together with a translation of the inscription and notes 

 upon the whole, by the Rev. Dr. Mill, V. P. 



[Published in the present No.] 

 A description of Pugan, the ancient capital of the Burmese Empire, by 

 Col. Burney, with a Drawing of the Town, by Mrs. Burney, was submitted. 

 [Published in the present number.] 



Physical. 

 Ensign Newbold transmitted eight specimens of Tin, cast in native 

 moulds, from the principal mines in the Malay Peninsula ; also, the crude 

 ore from Salangore and Sriminanti, with a request that they should be sub- 

 mitted to analysis. 



[This shall be done as soon as leisure will permit.] 

 Also a small phial of the Spoh or Upas poison (Toocicaria jjL>}) used by 



the aborigines of the interior of Sungie Ujong, to tip their arrows. 



A letter from Dr. Benza, Surgeon to the Governor of Madras, for- 

 warded for presentation, a Geological Sketch of the Neilgherries, (Nil. 

 giris,) illustrated by a coloured map, and by a series of specimens of the 

 rocks and minerals of the range. 



Duplicate specimens of the Minerals of South-India in the Museum of 

 the Madras Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, were presented by the 

 Secretary Mr. J. C. Morris. 



Dr. J. G. Malcolmson forwarded by the same opportunity a series of 



specimens of the Zeolites, from the trap formation in the vicinity of Poona, 



with notes on the most curious of them ; also a specimen of the native 



Carbonate of Magnesia, now becoming an article of Export from Madras. 



[We propose noticing these further after analysis.] 



Lieut. W. E. Baker, Engineers, presented notices and drawings of 

 some of the fossils of the Dadupur Museum, particularly the fossil elk, 

 the horse, the hog, the hyena, the buffalo, &c. 



From Lieut. H. M. Durand, Engineers, were also received and sub- 

 mitted, notes on the fossil Hippopotamus of the Sub-Himalayas, with 

 accurate pen illustrations. 



