CONTENTS. 



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I. — On a Simple Method of using an Insignificant Fraction of tlie 



Main Current produced hy a Dynamo-Mlectrie Machine for 

 Telegraph Purposes. — By Louis Schwekdlee, M. Inst. C. E., 

 &c., 1 



II. — On the Occurrence of the Musk-Deer in Tibet. — By R. 



Ltdekkee, B. a., ^ 



III. — Note on some Laddh Mammals. — By E.. Ltdekkee, B. A.,... 6 



IV. — -A Sketch of the History of the Fossil Vertehrata of India. — 



By R. Ltdekkee, B. A., ". b 



Y. — Account of the Verification of some Standard Weights, with 

 Considerations on Standard Weights in General. — By Col. 

 J. F. Tennais-t, R. E., F. R. S., Master of Her Majestfs 



Mint, -11 



VI. — On the Sigh Atmosjjherie Pressure of 187Q-7S in Asia and 

 Australia in Belation to the Sun-spot Cycle. — By Henet 

 F. Bi/ANEOED, Met. Bep. to the Govt, of India, (with PI. 1),... 70 



yiI.—Sy7iopsis of the Species of ChoeiRdodis, a ranarkable Genus 

 of Mantodea common to India and Tropical America. — By 

 J. Wood-Mason, Officiating Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museitm, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Medical 

 College, Calcutta, 



Title-page and Index to Vol. XLVIII, 1879. 



