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CONTEXTS. 



Pares. 



V, Observations on the planet Jupiter, &c. — By T. G. 



Taylor, Esq. Hon'ble Company's Astronomer 165 



YI. Instructions addressed to the Director of the Expedi- 

 tion into Central Africa 167 



"VII. Letter from the Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society 



of Great Britain and Ireland 176 



VIII. Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society and Auxi- • ; 



liary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held at the 

 Society's Rooms, at the College, on Saturday the 

 3 1 St January, 1835 17S 



IX. Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observa- 



tory ; for the months of December 1834, and Janua- 

 ry and February, 1835.— By T. G. Taylor, Esq. Hon. 

 Company's Astronomer 180 



X. Meteorological Register for January 1835, kept at 



Vizagapatam. — By W. Gilchrist, Assistant Surgeon, 



3d Light Infantry 186 



No. 8-JULY. 



I, A sketch of the History of the Ramoossies residing in 



theSattarah Territory and in the Poonah and Ahmed- 

 nuggur districts. — By Captain Alexander Mackin- 

 tosh, of the 27th Regiment Madras Native Infantry 

 — Commanding Ahmednuggur Local Corps 191- 



II, A brief notice of some of the Persian poets. — -By En- 



sign Newbold, 23d Regt. Madras Native Infantry. 247 

 in. Some account of the P'hansigars or gang robbers, 

 and of the Shudgarsliids, or tribe of Jugglers, — By 

 James Arthur Robert Stevenson, Esq. of the Madras ; 



Civil Service 255 



IV. Biographical Sketch of the Literary career of the late 

 Colonel Colin Mackenzie, Surveyor General of In- 

 dia — comprising some particulars of his collection of 

 Manuscripts, Plans, Coins, Drawings, Sculptures, , . 

 &c. illustrative of the Antiquities, History, Geogra- 

 phy, Laws, Institutions, and Manners of the ancient 

 Hindus; contained in a ktter addressed by, him to the 

 Bight Honorable ISir Alexander Johnston, V. P. R. 



A. S. &c. &c... 262 



y. On the Velocity of Li^ht^By AstronoEQiciis 290 



