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I, — Contributions to Indian Botany, No. 1.— By Robert 

 "Wight, m. d., f. l. s., &c. &c. Member of the Imp. 



Acad. Naturae Curiosorum. Surgeon on the Mad- 

 ras Establishment i 



II. — Clavis Analytica of the Convolvulaceje of the Pen- 

 insula of India— By G. Walker-Arnott, Esq. 

 a.m., F. L. s. and R. s. Edin. — Communicated, with 

 observations and Figures, by Dr. Wight 0 IIP 



III. — Indication of a new Genus belonging to the Strigine 



Family, with description of the New Species and 

 Type.— By Brian Houghton Hodgson, Esq. Bri- 

 tish Resident in Nepal 23 



IV. — Description of a Plan for a Self-Registering Barome- 



ter, and for the Construction of Metallic-tube Baro- 

 meters. — By "Willliam Gilchrist, Esq. of the 



Madras Medical Establishment , 26 



V. — Explanation of the Sketch of a New Indestructible 

 Portable Mountain Barometer. — By Captain 

 George Underwood, of the Madras Engineers.. 31 

 VI. — Suggestions 4br a New Standard for Indian Weights 



* and Measures 33 



VII.— On the Induration of Mortar 36 



VIII. — On the Homoothermal method of Acclimating Extra- 

 Tropical Plants within the Tropics. — By Robert 



Wight, Esq. m. d. &c. &c 39 



IX. — Notes, chiefly Geological, of a journey through the 

 Northern Circars in the year 1835— By P. M. 



Benza, Esq. m. d v 43 



X.— An Account of the Tribe of Mhadeo Kolies.— By 

 Captain A. Macintosh, 2/th Regiment Madras 

 Native Infantry, Commanding Ahmudnuggur Po- 

 lice Corps 71 



XL— Essay on the Metrical Compositions of the Persians— 

 and a brief Notice of some of the Persian Poets.— 

 By Lieutenant T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to 

 Brigadier General Wilson, c. b. Member of the 



Asiatic Societies of Bengal and Madras 113 : 



XII.— An Essay on the Relationship of Languages and 



Nations— By the Reverend Bernhard Schmid... 133 



