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INDEX. 



Page. 



Persia, Troops of, officered by the Bri- 

 tish 46 



Persian poets, Lieutenant Newbolil on 

 the ■ 74,477 



Peppers, varieties produced in India- 426 



Piudington (Mr. II.) on the soil suita- 

 ble lor Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar and 

 the Tea plant 483 



Planet Jupiter, on the mass of, by G. 

 V. Juggarow • 131 



Plantar Indies (Nilagiri) by Zenker 

 and Schmid 156,337 



Poets, Persian, Lieut. Newbold's No- 

 tices of the 74,377 



Polliapoliam, Geology of 26 



Porcelain Earth of the Neelgherries 248 



Potatoe, its introduction to, and culti- 

 vation in, India 408 



Primary Mountain Chains of S. India, 

 Captain Allardyce on the direction of 327 



Prinsep (Mr. James) Secretary to the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal 219 



■ ■ , Analysis of the 



Magnesite, by 232 



Proceedings of Societies 168,437 



R. 



Railroad in the Vaddawaur District. . . . 346 



Ramnad and Sevagungai Districts, tribe 

 of Maravas inhabiting 354 



Red Hills, near Madras, geological ac- 

 count of, by Mr. Cole , 110 



Reflecting Semicircle, Sir Howard 

 Douglas' method of using 319 



Review of the Hon. Mr.Turnour's, Epi- 

 tome of the History of Ceylon and 

 translation of the First Twenty Chap- 

 ters of the Mahawanso 395 



Review of Taylor's (Rev. Win.) Orien- 

 tal Historical Manuscripts 146 



< of Royle's Illustrations of the 



Botany &c. of the Himalayas, 151,4(38 



of Zenker and Schmid's Plantaj 



Indicae 157 



of Journal and Transactions of 



the Royal Asiatic Society 157 



of Taylor's (Mr. T. G.) Astro- 

 nomical results at the Madras Obser- 

 vatory. 164 



Reynolds, Lieutenant, his account of 

 the Thugs • — 85 



Rhubarb, its varieties — likelihood of 

 its successful cultivation in British 

 India 419,420 



Roads made of laterite, or iron clay 1 16 



Rock-basins of Europe 295 



'■ , perforations resembling, 



in the rocks of the Neelgherries • 291 



Royal Society of London, circular letter 

 from • 430 



Royle's Illustrations of the Botany, &e. 

 of the Himalays, Review of 151,408 



Russian Invasion of India, Col. Mon- 

 teith's remarks on • 34 



s. 



Salem, Geology of 22 



Saunlydroog, "geology of 25 



Sautghur, geology of 5 



Scammony, where brought from 419 



might be produced in N. India ibid. 



Schmid, (Rev. Bernhard) on Original 



and Derived Languages- •> 121 



Page. 



Schmid's, and Dr. Zenker's riantro In- 

 dicaj 156,337 



, on the Study of Botany 336 



, proposes to publish a Vocabu- 

 lary of the Aborigines of the Neel- 

 gherries • •'• « 431 



Scrophularinas Mr. W. Griffiths, on a 

 New Genus • 373 



Seringapatam, geology of 13 



Sethupathi, a title of distinction in S. 



j India 351 



i Seven Kaim's Hill, (Neelgherries) 266 



I Shevaroy Hills, geology of- 24 



I Sichel or Nirmul Hills, geology of 203 



Sienite, Dr. Benza's definition of 18 



and sienitic granite, difference 



between 18 



of the Neelgherries and Sienite 



zirconienne of Norway, resemblance 

 between 266 



Sispara, one of the Peaks Of the Neel- 

 gherries 279 



Sivatherium Giganteum, a new fossil 

 Ruminant Genus, account of the 219 



Soils suitable for Cotton, Sugar, To- 

 bacco, and the Tea plant 483 



Sugar, soil suitable for 486 



Sumatra, Battas, a people of, their 

 language 139 



Surveying, problem of the Three Points 

 in 321 



Synphyllium Torenioides, anew genus 

 of Scrophularinea; 373 



T. 



Tabasheer, Chemical analysis of, by Dr. 



Thomas Thomson 490 



Tanjore, Delta of, account of the irri- 

 gation of the 309 



Tartary, Colonel Monteith on 28 



Taylor, (Mr. T. G.) on the present state 



of Astronomical science 47 



, on the desiderata in astronomy 50 



's, Astronomical Results at the 



Madras Observatory 51 



, on the Registry of Meteorologi- 

 cal Observations . . 364 



Taylor, (Rev. William) on the language 



of the Battas of Sumatra---.. Ill 



, Oriental Historical Manuscripts 



in the Tamil language, Review of--- 146 

 Translation of Marawa-jathi- 



Vernanam 350 



his letter on the nature and pre- 



sent condition of the Mackenzie MSS. 432 



(Mr. T. G.) Meteorological 



Registers kept by .- 2.45,237,497 



Taylor, (Rev. W.) Resolution of the 



Asiatic Society of Bengal concerning, 442 

 Terminalia, stupendous size of, on the 



Neelgherries • 284 



Three points, in surveying, problem of 321 

 Thugs, account of, by Lieut. Reynolds 85 

 Titaniferous iron ore of the Neelgherries 259 

 Tobacco, its introduction to, and culti- 

 vation in, India ••• 409 



Torenia edentula, Mr. Griffiths' de- 

 scription of 376 



Trap, its employment in India as a 



building stone, 425 



takes a beautiful black polish 426 



— ■ — mistaken for granite ibid 



Travertino of Italy, kankar resembling 15 

 Tripatoor, geology of—-- , , , , , . 20 



