iv Contents. 



No. 135. 



Page. 



I. — First Report by Dr. Jameson of his deputation by Government to examine 

 the effects of the great Inundation of the Indus. See Journal Asiatic Soci- 

 ety, Vol. X, p. 615, .183 



II. — Barometrical Observations taken to ascertain the Altitude of the Station of 

 Purulia, in the Ramghur District. By Capt. Hannyngton, 24th N. I. 1st 

 Assistant to the Governor General's Agent, Maunbhoom, 226 



III.— Brigadier Twemlow on Artificial Fuel. Received from the Agricultural 

 Society, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..228 



IV.— A Companion to the Moon Table. By Capt. Shortrede, 1st Assistant G. T. 

 Survey, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..231 



V. — Account of a luminous Meteor seen at Charka, lat. 24° 06', long. 81° 02' on 

 the morning of the 11th April 1842. By Capt. Shortrede, 1st Assistant G. T. 

 Survey, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..235 



VI. — Analysis of Iron Ores from Tavoy and Mergui, and of Limestone from 

 Mergui. By Dr. A. Ure, London. Communicated for the Museum Eco- 

 nomic Geology of India, by E. A. Blundell, Esq. Commissioner, Tenasserim 

 Provinces, .. .. .. ». .. .. .. .. 236 



VII. — Supplement to the Monograph of the Indian and Malayan species of Cucu- 

 lidae, or Birds of the Cuckoo family, published in Vol. XI, pp. 898, 1095, et 

 seq. By Edward Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society, 240 



VIII.— Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 248 



No. 136. 



I. — Memoir on Indian Earthquakes. By Lieut. R. Baird Smith, Bengal 



Engineers, .. .. • . .. .. .. .. .. .. • . 258 



II. — Remarks on some of the disturbing causes in Barometric Observations. By 



Capt. Shortrede, First Assistant G. T. Survey, .. 293 



III. — On Barometric Heights. By Capt. R. Shortrede, First Assistant Grand 



Trigonometrical Survey, 298 



IV. — Catalogue of Nepalese Birds, presented to the Asiatic Society, duly named 

 and classified by the Donor, Mr. Hodgson, [and revised by the Society's 

 Curator] 301 



V. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 314 



No. 137. 



I. — An Eighth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, being researches relative 

 to the Storm in the Bay of Bengal, at Madras, and in the Arabian Sea, of 22d 

 to 31st October, 1842, with two charts. By Henry Piddington, . . . . 339 



II.— Translation of the Naipaiia Devuta Kalyana with Notes. By B. H. Hodg- 

 son, Esq. Resident at Kathmandoo, 400 



III. — Notice of two Marmots inhabiting respectively the plains of Tibet and the 

 Himalayan Slopes near to the Snows, and also of a Rhinolophus of the cen- 

 tral region of Nepal. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq 409 



IV.-— Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, .. .. ..415 



