CONTENTS. 



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Art. I. — Tbird Report of Progress made in the Examination of 



the Mackenzie MSS., with an Abstract Account of the 

 AVorks examined.— By the Rev. William Taylor, 

 Member of the Madras Literary Society, &c 1 



II. — Topographical Report on the Neilgherries. — By Sur- 



geon DeBurgh Birch, m. d. Superintending Medical 

 Officer 86 



III. — Description of the Valley of Sondur.— By Lieutenant 



Newbold 128 



IV. — Notices of Books. 



Reports of a Committee for investigating the Coal 

 and Mineral Resources of India...- 153 



v.— Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of 



Indigo; from Macfadyen's Flora of Jamaica ... . 197 



VI. — Proceedings of Societies. 



Geological Society, Malcolmson on the Basatic Dis- 

 trict of India 200 



Royal Society, Newbold on the Regur or Black 

 Cotton Soil ib, 



VII. —Literary Intelligence. 



Wight's Icones Plantarum Indiee Orientalis 210 



Meteorological Journal kept at the Madras Observa- 

 tory.— By T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. E. I. C. 

 Astronomer , 21 1 



