JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. I.— 1856. 



Report on the progress of the Magnetic Survey and the researches 

 connected with it in SikJcim, the Khosia Sills and Assam s April 

 to December, 1855. — By Heemann Schlagintweit, Esq. 



From H. Schlagintweit in charge of the Magnetic Survey of India. 



To Sir James Melvill, K. C. B. Secretary to the Court of Directors 

 of the Honorable East India Company, India House, London, 



Gowhatty, December l§th, 1855. 

 Sib, 



I have the honour to present you a report of my proceedings, 

 in that part of the Magnetic Survey of India which has been 

 entrusted to me, during the period from March to December. 



The report contains, besides an abstract of the chief results, the 

 routes we have followed up to the present date. 



We are spending the present winter months in Central Assam 

 and along the Bhootan frontier, from hence I intend to proceed to 

 Calcutta, in order to despatch the books of observations, plans, and 

 drawings, as well as the collections of geology and natural history, 

 to the India House. 



From Calcutta I intend, after my plans have been presented as 

 before in full detail to the Government of India, to proceed through 

 Bengal to the western parts of the Himalayas. 



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