CONTENTS. 



Page. 



I. —On the Power of the Letter p. By Rev. T. Foulkes, Church Mis- 

 sionary Society, Madras 1 



II.— On the Photographic delineation of Microscopic objects. By Lieut. 



J.Mitchell 10 



III. — On Indian Weights and Measures. By J. W. Breeks, Esq., C. S 16 



IV. — The Cairns of Tinnevelly. By the Rev. J. T. Kearns, Missionary, 



S. P. G., Madras 27 



V. — Memorandum on the Syrian and Jewish Copper Plates of Malabar. 



By Kookel Keloo Nair, District Moonsiff in Malabar 30 



VI.— Memorandum on the Geology of Thayet Myo. By J. Ranking, Esq., 



Surgeon, Madras Army 55 



VII. — Alterations in the paper on the Genus Impatiens. By Lieut. R. H. 



Beddome, Madras Army 59 



VIII. — Notes on various subjects. By Lieut. H. P. Hawkes, Sub Assistant 



Commissary General 60 



IX —Coin and Currency in Ancient and Modern times. By Henry King, 



A. B., M. B., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Army 62 



SELECTIONS. 



1.— Lecture on the Geology of the Province of Auckland, New Zealand. 



2. — Note on the Red Coloring Matter of the Sea round the Shores of the 

 Island of Bombay.. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



1.— Index to Geological Papers in the Madras Journal of Literature and 

 Science. 2. — On an Extraordinary rise in the Kistna in July 1359. 



3. — Account of an Earthquake in Guntoor, July 1859. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 

 1.— Proceedings of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary So- 



ciety, 14th April 1859.... 166 



2.— 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



12th May 1859 



168 



o.— 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



9th June 1859 



170 



4 — 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



14th July 1859.... 



171 



5.— 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



11th Aug. 1859 



172 



6.- 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



8th Sept. 1859.... 



173 



7.— Proceedings of the Photographic Society. 7th April 1859 174 



8.— Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



5th May 1859 



175 



9.— Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



2d June 1859.... 



200 



10.— Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



4th July 1859 ... 



201 



11. — Proceedings of the Agri-Horticultural Society. 



6ih April 1859 



203 



12.— Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



6th May 1859 ... 



207 



13.— Do, 



do. 



do. 



do. 



15th June 1859.... 



210 



14.— Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



22d July 1859.... 



216 



15.- Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



3rd Aug. 1859.... 



222 



16.— Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



7th Sept. 1859.... 



229 



METEOROLOGY. 



Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Observa- 

 tory, from April to September 1859. . . . 233,234 



