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analysis to the investigation of substances, and the Journal has 

 been a perfect record of new discoveries and ingenious results 

 in that department. 



In Geography there will be found a greater variety of new 

 routes, of surveys, and of accurate intelligence regarding coun- 

 tries imperfectly known, than any other work of equal dura- 

 tion and bulk can boast of possessing. 



The Geology of India has been investigated and pourtrayed 

 with a zeal that has been acknowledged by the Societies, and 

 by the Learned of Europe, and the fossil remains that have 

 been extracted from various localities, from the sub-Himalaya 

 and from Jva, and from the Nerbudda valley, have excited 

 the astonishment and admiration of those whose lives were de- 

 voted to this branch of Science, and who first through the pages 

 of this Journal became acquainted with the existence of the new 

 animals discovered. In this line the Journal has been most 

 indebted to Colonel Colvin, and Captain Cautley of the Ben- 

 gal Engineers, to Drs. Falconer and Spilsbury, and Colonel 

 Burney ; and Serjeant Dean of the Sappers and Miners, has 

 been by no means the least worthy of its contributors. 



In Statistics many subjects have been investigated accurately, 

 and with effect : and the manners and customs of many new 

 tribes have been illustrated and described with truth and live- 

 liness, so as to make the Journal a pleasant travelling compa- 

 nion to adventurous voyagers, and a work of useful reference 

 to functionaries in the interior. 



In the department of Languages the Journal has done much. 

 Grammars and Vocabularies of several new dialects have been 

 contributed by Lieut. Leech, and by others before him. In 

 Navigation some important papers, illustrative of the state of 

 this art in the middle ages, have been contributed by Baron 

 Von Hammer, now Count Purgstall, from the centre of 

 Germany, and this is far from being the only proof we could 

 adduce of the favor won for the Journal amongst the learn- 

 ed of the European Continent. 



But much as has been done in all these departments of 

 Philosophy and useful Science, it is not for these, or through 

 these, that the memory of the Journal will principally be 

 cherished. 



