1 847-] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 1265 



3. By the Royal Library : 



Klaproth, Chrestomathie Mandchou, 8vo. 



Ejusd. Supplement au dictionnaire Chinois-latin, fol. 



Ejusd. Verzeichniss der Chinesischen und Mandschuischen Biicher und Hands - 



chriften der Koniglichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, fol. 

 Schott, Fortsetzung des Vorstehenden, 8vo. 



Index librorum ad celebranda saecularia reformationis tertia, 8vo. 

 Index librorum quibus Bibliotheca regia Berolinensis auctaest annis 1835 — 1839. 



4 Vols. 4 to. 

 Entwiirfe und Studien eines Niederlandischen Meisters ausdem IV. Jahrhun- 



dert. quer, 8vo. 

 Beger, Regum et Imperatorum Romanomm Numismata, fol. 

 Ejusd. Lucernae, fol. 

 Ejusd. Ulysses, fol. 

 Ejusd. Poenae infernales, foi. 

 Ejusd. Numismata Pontificum Romanomm, foL 

 v. Diez, Denkwiirdigkeiten von Asien. Bd. 1. 2. 2 Vols. Bvo. 

 Ejusd. Ermabnung an Istambul, 4 to. 



Ejusd. Ueber Innate und Vortrag des Koniglichen Buchs. 8vo. 

 Buch des Kabus. Uebersetzt von v. Diez, 8vo. 



From Capt. Madden, B. A., Almorah, announcing the communica- 

 tion of an Essay on the Flora of Kumaon. 



From the Officiating Deputy Surveyor General, forwarding the Me- 

 teorological Register for November. 



From Mr. J. W. Grant, with extracts of a note from the Hon'ble 

 Mr. Thomason, Lieut. -Governor N. W. Provinces, describing a gradu- 

 ating machine invented by Capt. Strange, 7th Madras Cavalry. 



Simlah, 2d Oct. 1847. 

 My dear Mr. Grant, — Captain A. Strange, 7th Madras Light Cavalry (now- 

 here on leave) is a very ingenious mechanic. His forte is the making of Instru- 

 ments. He has made up himself here a very ingenious little machine for graduating 

 scales. The surface to be graduated is moved not in the common way by a screw, 

 but by a series of wheels, in fact by clock machinery. By its aid he can divide an 

 inch into 1350 parts. He to-day brought me his machine and showed me its ope- 

 ration on the enclosed piece of speculum metal cast by himself. You will observe 

 on it, three sets of scales. The longest and the most perfect was done with care 

 in his own study. The middle and worst was done to-day amongst a room full of 

 people, when the machine was hastily put up in my house, and was impeded by 

 dust, &c. The set at the other extremity were done in his own house, but among.st 

 many interruptions'. The sets show divisions 270 to an inch and 1350 to an inch, 



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