CONTENTS. 



No. 1.— OCTOBER, 



Pages. 



Introductory Notice c* 1 



I. Description of the Hill Tribes in Travancore by Lieut. Conner ... ib 



II. History of the Christians on the Malabar Coast — By the Venerable 



Archdeacon Robinson, m,a T 



III. Description and drawings of some remarkable Palmyra trees in the 



Northern Circars, — By Colonel Bowler 13 



IV. An account of the Hindoo, Holy days and festivals by Venketrow 



late Interpreter to the Officer Commanding Vellore, with consi- 

 derable alterations and additions by the Editor 15 



V. The ceremonial of the Ordination of a Burmese Priest of Budd'ha 



with notes, communicated by George Knox,Esq. of the Honorable 

 East India Company's Medical Establishment, Madras. (Transac- 

 tions of the Royal Asiatic Society.) 25 



VT. Meteorological Register kept at Manantoddy by Captain Minchin. 38 



VII. Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observatory ; for Au- 



gust, 1833,— By T. G. Taylor, Esq 39 



VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society 40 



IX. Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society, &c. &c 42 



X. Appendix 44 



No. 2.— JANUARY, 



I. Extract from the Memoir of the Survey of Travancore, compiled 



by Lieut. Conner. . ; .... 54 



II. An Account of the Island and Bridge of Sivasamudram in the 



Cdveri River. By Ramasw^mi Mudeliar, Jaghiredar of the 

 Island. (Extracted from the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society Vol, 3. Part 2d.) ... 83 



III. An Historical account of the Christians on the Malabar Coast, — By 



the Venerable Archdeacon, Robinson, m, a 94 



IV. A short notice of Earthquakes,— By Asst. Surg, B, W. Wright, . . 104 



V. Hints for establishing a new system of supplying tanks with water, 



adapted particularly for the Carnatic, to enable the cultivation 

 of rice and agriculture in general, to be carried to an indefinite 

 extent without being dependent on the fall of rain in any parti- 

 cular district for a supply of water lU 



VI. Note, by a Member, on Colonel Bow ler's description of the branch- 



ed Palmyra trees 1 14 



