CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



No. 121. 



Page. 

 I. — Extract of a Letter from Dr. Jameson to Mr. Clerk 1 



II. — On the Literature and Origin of certain Hill Tribes in Sikkim. By A. Camp- 

 bell, Esq. Superintendent of Darjeeling 4 



III. — A Fifth Memoir with reference to the Theory of the Law of Storms in India, 

 being researches about the Madras Storm of May 16th, 1841, and an account 

 of a Whirlwind experienced by the French Ship " Paquebot des Mers du 

 Sud," Capt. P. Saliz off the Cape. By Henry Piddington, Esq 6 



IV. — Paragraphs to be added to Captain G. B. Tremenheere's Report on the Tin 

 of Mergui, communicated to the Asiatic Society, through the Secretariat of 

 the General Department 24 



V. — Extracts from a letter to Government on the above subject, from Dr. M'Clel- 

 land, Secretary to the Coal Committee 25 



VI. — Note to the Botanico-Agricultural Account of the protected Sikh States, 

 No. 1, September, 1838, p. 764. By M. P. Edgeworth, Esq. C. S. .. .. 26 



VII. — On Equations of Condition for a Quadrilateral, common or re-entrant. 



By Captain R. Shortrede, Assistant Surveyor General 28 



VIII. — On improvement in Irrigation. By Lieut. A. Murray McGregor, 66th 



Regiment Native Infantry.. .. 39 



IX. — Compendious Logarithmic Tables. By Capt. Shortrede 40 



X. — Tables of Barometrical and Thermometrical Observations, made in Affghanis- 

 tan, Upper Scinde, and Kutch Gundava, during the years 1839-40. By Dr. 

 Griffith 49 



XI.— Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 92 



No. 122. 



I. — A Geographical Notice of the Valley of Jullalabad. By Lieut. MacGregor, 



Political Department. .. ..117 



II.— Second Notice of some new Bactrian Coins. By Lieut. A. Cunningham. .. 130 



III. — On the Gem and Coins, figured as Nos. 7 and 8 in the Preceding Plate, and 

 on a Gem belonging to the late Edward Conolly. By the Editor 137 



IV. — Observations on the Genus Spathium. By M. P. Edgeworth, Esq. .. 145 



