CONTENTS. 



On Native Law a9 administered in the Courts of the Madras 

 Presidency. By John Dawson Mayne, Esq., Barrister 

 at Law... ... ... ••• 1 



Contributions to the Botany of Southern India, by Captain R. H. 



Beddome, Officiating Conservator of Forests, with Plates .. 37 



Telugu Spells, translated by C. P. Brown, Esq., late of the 



Madras Civil Service... ... ... ... 60 



Remarks on the Sanskrit Manuscripts in Madras, by Dr. Georg 

 Buhler, Professor of Sanskrit in the Elphinstone College, 

 Bombay ... ... ... ... 72 



On the Madras Survey of the Southern Heavens, by N. Pt. 



Pogson, Esq., f. r. a. s., Government Astronomer ... 85 



On the discovery of Two new variable Stars, by N. R. Pogson, 



Esq., f. r. a. s., Government Astronomer ... ... 95 



On two Manuscripts of 'Omar Khayyam's Quatrains. By 



J. H. Arthur Branson, Esq., Barrister-at-law... ... 97 



Description of two Manuscripts in the Library of the Madras 



Literacy Society. ... ... ... ... 105 



1. Miscellaneous Laws of Siam. 



2. De Bourzes' Dictionnaire T amid -Francois. 



On the origin of the Sanskrit Linguals, by Dr. Georg Buhler, 



Professor of Sanskrit in the Elphinstone College,. Bombay... 116 

 Miscellanea. 



I. Six South-Indian Airs... ... ... ...137 



II. On the Early Marriages of the Hindils... ... 139 



III. On the unprimitiveness of the Hindu veneration of 



Cows ... ... ... 140 



IV. Bhutata P^n^y a, translated by SingaUchariyar 141 



Results of Meteorological Observations made at the Madras Ob- 

 servatory, in 1862, by N. R. Pogson, Esq., f. r. a. s., 

 Government Astronomer.,. ... ... ... 158 



