Contents. vii 



INDEX TO NAMES OE CONTEIBUTOES. 



Page 



Csoma De Korosi, A brief Notice of the Subhashita Eatna 

 Nidhi of Saskya Pandita, ... ... ... 257 



Hamilton, Sir E., Bart. Table of heights and distances along 

 the proposed line of Bail way from Surat to Agra, ... 221 



Hannay, Lieut.-Col. S. E., Notes on the Iron Ore Statistics 

 and Economic Geology of Upper Assam, ... ... 330 



Hodgson, B. H. Esq. Aborigines of the Nilgiris,... 31, 498 



> On a new Perdicine bird from Tibet, 165 



, Eoute of two Nepalese Embassies to Pe- 



. kin with remarks on the "Water-shed and platean of Tibet, 4+73 



Neitner, John, Esq., Entomological Papers — being descrip- 

 tions of New Ceylon Coleoptera, with such observations on 

 their habits as appear in any way interesting, 381, 523 



Phayre, Major, Original text and translation of a scroll of 

 Silver in the Burmese language, found in a Buddhist Pagoda 

 atProme, ... ... ... ... ... 173 



Piddington, H. Esq. A second series of experiments to ascer- 

 tain the mean quantity of Silt held in suspension by the 

 Waters of the Hooghly in various months of the year, as 

 also the quantity carried out to sea, with an appendix on 

 its sectional area and average discharge, ... ... 151 



Examination of three specimens of Bengal 



Mineral "Waters, ... ... ... ... 190 



Samuells, E. A. Esq., B. C. S. A visit to the Eock-cut Tem- 

 ples of Khandgiri, ... ... ... ... 222 



-, Notes on a forest race called 



Puttooas or Juanga, inhabiting certain of the Tributary 

 Mehals of Cuttack, ... ... ... ... 295 



Schlagintweit, Adolphe and Eobert, Esqrs. Eeport upon the 

 progress of the Magnetic Survey of India and of the re- 

 searches connected with it in the Himalaya Mountains, 

 from April to October, 1855, ... ... ... 105 



, Eeport on the progress of the 



Magnetic Survey and the researches connected with it in 

 Sikkim, the Khasia Hills and Assam, April to December, 

 1855, ... ... ... ... 1 



