JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. L— 1854. 



A Twenty -second, Memoir on tlie Storms of the Indian and China 

 Seas ; Cyclones and Tornadoes of the Bay of Bengal from 1848 to 

 1852. By Henry PiDDiNaTON, President of Marine Court. 



The publication of these Memoirs is often delayed longer than 

 is perhaps agreeable to those who look for them, as being inter- 

 ested in the subject, and by those who, having contributed no- 

 tices are desirous of seeing the results of them announced. This 

 arises from various causes, the principal of which is that it is often 

 necessary where the data are incomplete, to wait a long time for the 

 return of outward bound ships from Europe, and then that in the 

 interval some new and more urgent claims to the little time I can 

 devote to them arises, and thus they fall into arrears. I should also 

 in fairness add to this little explanation, my unwillingness to tres- 

 pass on the kindness of the Editors of the Journal, who must afford 

 to each of the various classes of their readers and contributors a fair 

 share of space. 



The present Memoir then comprises the investigation or notices 

 of 



I. The Noacolly Tornado of May, 1844. 



II. The Nussur's Tornado of July, 1848. 



III. The Chittagong (stationary) Cyclone of May, 1849. 



IV. The Erin's Cyclone in the Preparis Passage and Andaman 

 Sea, of November, 1850 making thus a series of short Memoirs 



No. LXV.— New Series. Vol. XXIII. b 



