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Page. 



VII.— Literal Translation of the Vasanta-Gurh Inscription. By Pundit Suro- 



daha Prasadh, 819 



VIII. — Observations on a second Inscription taken in fac-simile from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Mount Aboo. By Captain Burt, Bengal Establishment, F. R. S. 821 



IX. — A letter to the Secretary, on the Nurma Cotton of Bundelcund, from J. 



G. Bruce,Esq 822 



X. — Letter to the Editor, on Lichens in the Himalayas, from Henry Cope, Esq. 828 



XL— Proceedings of the Asiatic Society .... .... 833 



No 119. 



I. — Report on the Tin of the Province of Mergui. By Captain G. B. Tremen- 



heere, Executive Engineer, Tenasserim Division 845 



11. — Report on the Manganese of the Mergui Province. By Captain G. B. 



Tremenheere, .... .... .... .... .... 852 



III. — Of anew species of Lagomys inhabiting Nepal, (with Plate,) Lagomys 



Nepalensis, Nob. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. Resident at the Court of Nepal 854 ^ 



IV. — Notice of a new form of the Glaucopinse, or Rasorial Crows, inhabiting 

 the Northern region of Nepal, Conostoma ^modius, (Nobis type ) By B. 

 H. Hodgson, Esq. Resident at the Court of Nepal. .... .... 856 '' 



v.— A Monograph of the species of Wild Sheep. By Edward Blyth, Curator 



to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, .... .... .... 858 



VI. — A connected view of the species of Lichens, with their Botanical relation- 

 ship existing between them and the Indian productions. By Henry 

 Cope, Esq 888 



VII. — A Fourth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, being remarks and do- 

 cuments relative to the loss of the ship Golconda, in the Tyfoons of 22nd to 

 24th September 1840, in the China Sea. By Henry Piddington, Esq. 895 



VIII. — Classified Catalogue of Mammals of Nepal, (corrected to the end of 1841, 



first printed in 1832). By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. Bengal Civil Service, .... 907 ' 



IX.— Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, for November 917 



X. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, for December, 935 



No. 120. 



I.— Report to the Secretary of the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium, on the 

 Salts called Puckwah and Phool Kharee, with a process for detecting the 

 adulteration of Government Salt, estimates of the quantities of both Salts 

 annually produced, and of the amount of loss which the Revenue may sus- 

 tain through the production of these two articles. By Henry Piddington, 

 Esq 939 



II.— Remarks by Capt. J. T. Boileau, Bengal Engineers F.R.S., F.R.H.S., 

 on the Construction of Newman's improved Portable Barometer, and on the 

 mode of renewing the Guage Point when lost, 957 



