CONTENTS, 



Page, 



IX.— On preserving Timber, &c. from the destructive attacks 



of the White Ant.— By Aliqiiis 313 



X.— Notes illustrative of the Geology of Southern India.— By 



Lieut. R. Baird Smith, Bengal Engineers 315 



XL— Geological Features of the Himalayan Mountains 323 



XII.— The Meteorology of the Plains and Mountains of N. W. 



India 343 



XIII.— Report of the Coal Committee * 355 



XIV".— Notices op Books. 



1. — Illustrations of Indian Botany, &c.— By Robert Wight, 



M. D., F. L. s.,&c. 



2. — Tcones Plantarum Indise Orientalis, or Figures of Indian 



Plants.— By Robert Wight, m. d., p. l. s., &c. 



3. — Illustrations of the Botany and other Branches of the 



Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the 

 Flora of Cashmere.— By J. Forbes Royle, m. d., v. p. r. s., 

 Late of the Medical Staff of the Bengal Array, &c. 



&c. &c 386 



XV. — Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary 



of the Royal Asiatic Society 387 



Note by Walter Elliot, Esq. on the species of Naja 

 described in the lastNumberof this Journal , 390 



XV I.— Me teorol ogy 



Account of the progress of the Electric fluid which struck 

 the house belonging to Colonel Monteith, situated on 

 the Hill at Palaveram, on the 1st November, 1839. With 

 a lithographed illustration. — By T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. E. 

 L C. Astronomer 393 



Horary Meteorological Observations made agreeably with 

 the suggestions of Sir John Herschel 395 



Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observa- 

 tory ; for the month of January, February and March 

 1840 398 



