CONTENTS. 



Page. 



XIIT.— Extracts. 



1. — Sketch of the Geology of the Bombay Islands. — By 



Robert D. Thomson, m, d..(. 159 



2. — Catalogue of Plants collected at Bombay. — By John 



Graham, Esq 1/8 



3. —Directions for collecting and preserving Animals, &c. 184 



4. — Instructions for Making and Registering Meteorolo- 



gical Observations at various Stations in Southern 

 Africa and other Countries in the South Seas, as 



also at Sea 196 



XIV. — Meteorological Observations registered at the Mad- 

 ras Observatory, during the Storm which occurred 

 on the 30th of October 1 838.— By T. G. Taylor, 

 Esq. Honourable East India Company's Astronomer 211 



Horary Observations made at the Madras Observa- 

 tory, on December 20,22—1836 214 



Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Obser- 

 vatory ; for the Months of October) November and 

 December 1836 215 



^References to Dr. Wight's Figures off fmpatiens. 



1. Plant, natural size. < 



2. Separate flower. 



3. Upper or united sepals— usually petaloid. 

 4.4. Lateral sepals. 



5. Lower sepal and spur. 

 6.6. Four petals united by pairs into two, 2-3 lobed petals. 

 7-7. Column of fructification, and stamens separated from the ovary* 



8. Ovary entire. 



9. cu t longitudinally, showing the ovules, usually, pendulous, 



but in some instances, when very numerous, transverse or 

 even ascending — The last, perhaps, an error of the draughts- 

 man, overlooked at the time of making the drawing. 



10, Young capsule cut transversely. 



11. Seed— 12 Seed cut transversely all more or less magnified. 



I have put numbers to all the parts of a few of the drawings. I d<? 

 not think it necessary to go over the whole, as one set of numbers 

 applies to all. 



Erratum. — At PI. 9, vol. 4, under fig. 7, insert Xanthochymus piclo- 

 r ius ; and under fig* 8, X. dulcis. 



