CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Amoy, Ornithology of, .. ,. .. • . 240 



Animals known as Wild Asses, Memorandum on Mr. Blyth's 



paper, on the, .. .. .. .... 136 



Apologues, Mediaeval, on certain, . . . . .-.10 



Asia, S. E. on the flat-horned Taurine Cattle of; with a Note 

 on the Races of Rein Deer, and a note on Domestic Ani- 

 mals in general, . . . . . . .... 282 



Barren Island, account of a visit to, in March, 1858, .. 1 



Bengal, Lower, the Cartilaginous Fishes of, . . . . 35 



Buddhist Monastery at Pu-gan, on the Irawadi, Remarks upon 



an ancient, .. .. ... .. .. 346 



Damuda group, on the rocks of, and their associates in Eastern 

 and Central India as illustrated by the re-examination of 

 the Raniganj field, .. .. .. .... 352 



Darpana, Sahitya, on a passage in the tenth book of the, . . 217 

 Difference, Physical, between a rush of water like a torrent 

 down a channel and the transmission of a wave down a 

 river — with reference to the Inundation of the Indus as 

 observed at Attock in August, 1858, . . .. . . 274 



Fishes received chiefly from the Sitang river and its Tributary 



Streams, Tenasserim Provinces, Report on some, .. .. 138 



Geological Specimens from the Persian Gulf, &c, collected by 

 Capt. C. G. Constable, H. M. I. N., Concluding portion, 

 Report on, . . . . . . . . . . 359 



Indus, Memorandum on the great Flood of, August, 1858, .. 128 

 Inscriptions, Indian, two letters on, . . . . . . IS 



Irawadi River, Memorandum on, with a monthly Register of its 

 rise and fall from 1856 to 1858, and a measurement of its 

 Minimum discharge, .. .. .. .... 175 



