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ASIATIC SOCIETY 



A Sixth Memoir on the ham of Storms in India, being, Storms in 

 the China Seas, from 1780 to 1841. By Henry Piddington. 



It naturally occurred to me in the course of my investigations on 

 this subject, that it would be of great interest could we collect toge- 

 ther as many of the old storms of past years as remain upon record ; 

 and with this view, I addressed the Hon'ble the Court of Directors of 

 the East India Company, requesting their assistance in obtaining from 

 their official documents, and from their old officers, such information 

 as still existed. With their wonted, and well-known liberality in 

 the cause of science this request was promptly complied with, and I 

 owe to their kind assistance a mass of documents, comprising numerous 

 extracts from logs and letters which relate to the China Seas and North- 

 ern Pacific,* besides other miscellaneous information. It is then, I need 

 not say, to them that this memoir will owe, in the first place, most of 

 its information, and I may be allowed to add, that as the best thanks 

 which I could offer to them, I have endeavoured to use to the best 

 advantage their valuable materials. 



To Captain Chas. Biden of Madras, I am next indebted for a long 

 series of logs and notices, which he has been most zealous in collects 

 ing and forwarding to me. And from Mr. Greenlaw, the Secretary 



* The remainder to the Bay of Bengal, Southern Indian Ocean, and Cape of Good 

 Hope, which will appear in future memoirs. 



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