CONTENTS. 



No. I. 



(Published 31st May, 1865.) 



Page 

 Notes of a tour made in 18G3-64 in the Tributary Mehals 

 under the Commissioner of Chota-Nagpore, Bonai, Gang- 

 pore, Odeypore and Sirgooja. — By Lt.-Col. T. Dalton, ... 1 



Description of a supposed new Genus of the Gadidas, Arakan. — 



By Lieut.-Col. S. R. Tickell, Bengal Staff, 32 



On the degree of uncertainty which Local Attraction, if not 

 allowed for, occasions in the map of a country, and in the 

 Mean Figure of the Earth as determined by Geodesy ; a 

 method of obtaining the Mean Figure free from ambiguity 

 by a comparison of the Anglo-Gallic, Russian and Indian 

 Arcs ; and Speculations on the constitution of the Earth's 

 Crust. — By Archdeacon Pratt, 34 



Notes to accompany a Geological map and section of the Lowa 

 Ghur or Sheen Ghur range in the district of Bunnoo, 

 Punjab : with analyses of the Lignites. — By Albert M. 

 Verchere, Esq. M. D., 42 



Scientific Intelligence, 45 (j, 



Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observa- 

 tions taken at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for 

 the month of January, 1865, , , i 



No. II. 

 (Published 22nd July, 1865.) 

 Remarks on the Vegetation of the Islands of the Indus River. — 

 By J. E. T. Aitchison, M. D., F.R.C.S.E., F.L S., Extr. 

 Member, Royal Med. Soc, Edin., &c, Asst. Surgeon, 

 Bengal Army,.,, , 53 



