Contents 



PART II. 



No. 163. 



Page. 



I.— Notes on the Pokree and Dhanpoor Copper mines in Gherwal. By Sieg- 



mund Reckendorf, Esq., Mining Engineer. .. .. .. .. 471 



II.— -Report of an Expedition into the Mishmee Hills to the north-east of Sudyah. 

 By Lieut. E. A. Rowlatt, 21st Regt. N.I. In a letter to Major F. Jenkins, 

 Governor General's Agent, N.E. Frontier, dated Saikwah, 1st January 

 1845. Communicated by the Government of India. .. .. .. 477 



III.— Note on a curious Sandstone formation at Sasseram, Zillah Shahabad. 



By Lieut. W. S. Sherwill, 66th B.N.I. With a plate. .. .. 495 



IV. — Notes, chiefly Geological, across the Peninsula of Southern India, from 

 Madras (Lat. N. 13° 5') to Goa (Lat. N. 15° 30') by the Baulpilly Pass 

 and Ruins of Bijanugger. By Capt. Newbold, F.R.S., M.N.I. Assistant 

 Commissioner Kurnool, Madras Territory. With a plate. .. .. 497 



V.— On the Invention of the Armenian Alphabet. By Johannes Avdall, M. A.S. 522 



VI. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society for the months of July and August, 1845. lxvii 



No. 164. 



I.— On the Tenures and fiscal relations of the Owners and Occupants of the soil 



in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa. By James Alexander, Esq., B.C. S. .. 527 



II- — Notices and Descriptions of various New or Little Known Species of 

 Birds. By Ed. Blylh, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum. (Con- 

 tinued from p. 212, ante.) .. .. .. .. .. .. 546 



III.— A notice of the Alphabets of the Philippine Islands. Translated from 

 the " Informe sobre el Estado de las Islas Filipinas," of Don Sinibaldo de 

 Mas, Madrid, January 1843, Vol. 1. p. 25. By Henry Piddington, Sub- 

 Secretary Asiatic Society, &c. &c. With a plate. .. .. .. 603 



IV. — Register of Indian and Asiatic Earthquakes for the year 1843. By 



Lieut R. Baird Smith, F.G.S., Bengal Engineers. .. .. ..604 



No. 165. 



I.— On the Buddhist Emblems of Architecture. By Capt. T. Latter, B.N.I. 



Assistant Commissioner, Arracan. With two plates. .. •• .. 623 



