JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. II. 1856. 



Meport upon the Progress of tlie Magnetic Survey of India and of 

 the researches connected with it in the Himalaya Mountains, from 

 April to October, 1855. — By Abolphe Schlaglntweit and Robert 



SCHLAGINTWEIT. 



To Captain Atkinson", 



Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, 



Military Department. 

 Sir, 



1. We have the honor to lay before Government a Report 

 upon the progress of our researches in the Himalaya mountains 

 during the last season ; we also beg to subjoin a short account of 

 our journey in Thibet, which may be considered as an Appendix to 

 the Scientific Report. "We should feel much obliged if Government 

 would do us the favor to communicate the Reports, &c, to the 

 Asiatic Society of Calcutta, for publication. 



2. We beg further to communicate to you for the information of 

 Government, that, having completed, for this season, our researches 

 in the Himalayas and Gurhwal, we left the Himalayas on the 8th 

 of November, after having staid three weeks at Mussoorie, to put 

 in order our books of observation, the maps and drawings, &c. We 

 arrived at Agra on the 20th of November, and we propose leaving 

 on the 28th or 29th instant. 

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