iv Contents. 



Page. 

 V. — Journal of the Mission which visited Bootan, in 1837-38, under Captain R. 

 Boileau Pemberton. By W. Griffith, Esq., Madras Medical Establishment, 



(with map,) 208 



VI.— Report on the Museum of the Asiatic Society. By Dr. Wm. Jameson, .. 241 



V II. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 245 



VIII. — Meteorological Register, 250 



No. 88.— APRIL. 



I. — Journal of the Mission which visited Bootan, in 1837-38, under Captain 

 R. Boileau Pemberton. By W. Griffith, Esq. Madras Medical Establish- 

 ment, (concluded) 251 



II. — Account of Tamba Patra Plates dug up at Baroda, in Goojrat; with 



Facsimile and Translation 292 



HI, — Collection of Facts which may be useful for the comprehension of Alex- 

 ander the Great's exploits on the Western Banks of the Indus (with map.) 304 



IV. — Remarks upon the Rain and Drought of the last Eight Seasons in India. 



By the Rev. R. Everest, Landour .... 313 



V. — Statistical Record of the duration of diseases in 13,019 fatal cases in Hin- 

 doos. — Extraordinary mortality among Lying-in Women — Compiled by Dr. 

 Duncan Stewart, Superintendent General of Vaccination 316 



VI.— Summary description of four new species of Otter. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Resident at Catamandu, Nepal. . . . . . . 319 



VII. — On the Geographic Distribution of the Vulturidse, Falconidae, and Stri- 

 gidae ; being the first of a series of memoirs intended to illustrate the Geogra- 

 phic Distribution of the Ornithological Kingdom. By Wm. Jameson, Esq., 

 Assistant Surgeon Bengal Medical Service, &c. . . . . .... 321 



VIII. — On the use of Wells, &c. in Foundations ; as practised by the natives 

 of the Northern Doab. By Capt. Cautley, Superintendent of the Doab 

 Canal ' 327 



IX. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. . . . . . . .... 341 



X.— Meteorological Register, . . . . . . . . 346 



No. 89.— MAY. 



I. — Notice of Inscriptions in Behar, communicated by Mr. Ravenshaw 347 



IL— The " Mahimnastava," or a Hymn to Shiva ; with an English transla- 

 tion. By the Rev. Krishna Mohana Banerj i 355 



III. — Account of a Journey from Calcutta via Cuttack and Pooree to Sum- 

 bulpur, and from thence to Mednipur through the Forests of Orissa. By 

 Lieut. M. Kittoe. (continued) .... .... .... .... . • • • 367 



IV.— Proposed publication of Plates of Hindu Architectural Remains 384 



V. — Papers relative to the New Coal Field of Tenasserim 385 



VI. — Memoir on the Regeneration and actual state of Medicine in Egypt — 

 Translated from the Italian of J. E. Mino, Doctor in Philosophy, Medi- 

 cine, and Surgery. Leghorn, 1838 393 



VII.— Note on the dissection of the Arctonix Collaris, or Sand Hog. By 



George Evans, Esq. late Curator to the Asiatic Society 408 



VIII.— On the Cultivation of Roses and the Manufacture of Rose-Water and 



Uttur at Ghazeepore 411 



IX.— Memoranda on the Museum of the Asiatic Society. By Dr. M'Clelland. 415 

 X. — Observations on the " Report on the Museum of the Asiatic Society, by Dr. 

 Wm. Jameson," published in the Journal for March, 1839. By J. T. Pearson, 

 Asistant Surgeon, formerly Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 419 



