CONTENTS. 



PART II. 



No. 127. 



Page. 

 I.— A Sixth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, being Storms in the China 



Seas, from 1780 to 1841. By Henry Piddington, Esq. .. .. ..605 



II. — Observations on the Herat Astrolabe, described in No. 118, of the Journal. 



By the Rev. J. S. Pratt, Chaplain to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of 



Calcutta. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..720 



No. 128. 



I.— A description of the Coal Field of the Damoodah Valley and the adjacent 

 Countries of Beerbhoom and Poorooleah, as applicable to the present date, 

 1842. By J. Homfray, Esq 728 



II. — A Monograph of the species of Lynx. By Edward Blyth, Curator to the 



Asiatic Society. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 740 



III. — Selections communicated by the Sudder Board of Revenue at Allahabad, 

 from Correspondence respecting the proposed formation of a Canal for Irriga- 

 tion to be supplied from the River Jumna, near the Village of Kuttha Put- 

 thur, in the Deyra Doon. From Capt. P. T. Cautley, to the Secretary of 

 the Sudder Board of Revenue, North Western Provinces, 761 



IV. — Comparison of the Areas of Plane and Spherical Triangles. By Capt. 



Shortrede, 1st Assistant, Grand Trigonometrical Survey... .. .. 779 



V.— A Note on Capt. Shortrede's Remarks in No. CXXIII, (Page 240) of this 



Journal. By S. G. T. Heatly Esq. .. .. .. .. ..782 



VI. — Descriptive Notice of the Bat described as Taphozous longimanus by Gen. 



Hardwicke. By Edward Blyth, Curator to the Asiatic Society. . . , . 784 



VII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. .. .. .. .. .. 786 



No. 129. 



I. — Contributions towards a History of the development of the Mineral Resources 



of India. By S. G. Tollemache Heatly, Esq. .. .. .. .. 811 



II. — Memorandum on the usual Building Materials of the distinct of Cuttack, 



forwarded to the Museum of Economic Geology, with a set of specimens. 



By Lieut. Righy, Executive Engineer, Cuttack Division. .. ..839 



III.— Second Report on the Tin of Mergui. By Capt. G. B. Tremenheere, 



F. R. S. Executive Engineer, Tenasserim Division. .. .. .. 839 



IV.— Notes on the Iron of the Kasia Hills, for the Museum of Economic Geology. 



By Lieut. Yule. Engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 



