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Page. 



On the American Sumach * 363 



On the identity of the bark of the Strychnos Nux Vomica 



with the false Angustura of wfit:rs on Materia Medica. 



— By W. B. O'Shaugiinessy, m. d 365 



Catalogue of Plants collected at Bombay. — By John 



Graham, Esq 367 



Account of the Province of Ramnad, Southern Peninsula 



of India. Compiled from the " Mackenzie Collection," 



and edited by the Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society. 371 

 Second Report of the Meteorological Committee of the 



South African Literary and Scientific Institution 393 



Literary and Scientific Intelligence 400 



Dr. Buckland's Geology and Mineralogy — The Siva- 



therium 40 L 



Fossil Remains of the Cuttle Fish 404 



New method of Boring 406 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. — The 



Indian Antelope ibid 



Mr. Hodgson on the Scolopacidse of Nipal 411 



Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of London.... 412 

 On the discovery of the Tea Plant in a Province of Bri- 

 tish India.— By M. A. De Candolle 413 



Abstract of a Report on the Climate and Diseases of Van 



Dieman's Land.— By W. Milligan, Esq. m. d 416 



Fall of part of Dent du Mi^i , 420 



Trade in Chromate of Iron 421 



Delightful Smell on approaching tropical lands from sea. 422 

 British Association for the advancement of Science. .. . 423 



Artificial Crystals and Minerals.— By A. Crosse, Esq. . . . 424 

 Preemia offered for investigations on various subjects. . . . 425 



Postscript.— On the Camboge Plant.— By Dr. Wight. 428 



Directions for preserving Plants. — By Dr. Wight 430 



Plan of a self-registering Iron Barometer. — By Captain 



G. Underwood 432 



Statement of the Population of the Hill Villages in Din- 



digul District.— By J. Blackburne, Esq 433 



Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observatory, 



for the Months of January, February and March.— By 



T, G. Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer 434 



