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VII.— Catalogue of Mammalia in ttie Museum of the Asiatic Society. By 

 J. T. Pearson, Surgeon, Bengal Establishment; formerly Curator of the 

 Museum, .... .... .... .... .... .... 660 



VIII.— Inscription taken from a Baolee at Bussuntgurh, at the foot of the 

 Southern range of Hills running parallel to Mount Aboo. By T. S. Burt, 

 F.R.S. Captain, Bengal Engineers, .... .... .... .... 664 



IX — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, .... .... 674 



No. 117. 



I.— Account of Arakan. By Lieut. Phayre, Senior Assistant Commissioner, 



Arakan, .... .... .... .... .... .... 679 



II, — Table of proportional Logarithms. By Captain Robert Shortrede, .... 713 



III. — Memorandum on Nurma Cotton. By H. Piddington, Esq 716 



IV. — Report on some articles of Trade sent by Lieut. Postans from Khorassan. 



By H. Piddington, Esq .... 718 



v.— Note on the Cervus Elaphus (?) of the Sai Forest of Nep^l Hodie, C. 



Affinis, nob. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. .... .... .... 721 



VI.— Notes and Observations in continuation from Dr. Walker, Madras Medi- 

 cal Service, on a tour in H. H. the Nizam's Territories, 725 



VII.— A general Review of the Species of True Stag, or Elaphoid form of 

 Cervus, comprising those more immediately related to the Red Deer of 

 Europe. By Edward Blyth, Curator of the Museum of the Bengal Asiatic 



Society, 736 



VIII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 751 



IX.— Special Meeting held on the 24th September 1841, of the Committee of 



Papers, .... .... .... ...^ .... 755 



No. 118. 



1. — Description of a Persian Astrolabe, submitted to the Asiatic Society by 

 Major Pottinger. By J. Middleton, Esq. Principal of the Government 

 College at Agra, 759 



1 1 . — Notice of the Marmot of the Himalaya and of Tibet. By B. H . Hodgson, 



Esq. Resident at the Court of Nepal, 777 



n I.— Memorandum on the Organization of a Museum of Economic Geology 

 for the North-Western Provinces of British India, to be established at Agra. 

 By Lieut. W. Baird Smith, Bengal Engineers 779 



IV.— On a New Organ in the Genus Moschus. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Resident at the Court of Nepal, 795 



v.— Extracts from a Report on subjects connected with Affghanistan. By Dr. 

 Griffith, communicated to the Editor from the office of the Political Secre- 

 tariat of India, 797 



VI. —Description of another new species of Pika, (Lagomys) from the Hima- 

 laya, By Edward Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society 816 



