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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for September and October 

 1 839 —By the Asiatic Society. 



Captain Low's Dissertation on Penang and Province Wellesley.~By 

 Lieutenant T. J. Newbold. 



A help in acquiring a knowledge of the English language (Englisli and 



Canarese). By the same. 



Journal of a Tour along the coast of Java and Bali, &c, do. 

 P Apergu General sur le Territoire D'Armenie. do. 

 " The Risalah of Shekh Alkhatub— (Arabic). do. 



Tasikhi Ferishta. [do. 



The History of Seringapatam and Madias in Persian. do. 



The translation of the Gospels into Malay.— By Mr. R. L. BrueyNj 

 Batavia 1832. do. 



The Poems of Amir Khusroo (in Persian). do. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the donors. 



The following communications to the Society were laid before the 

 meeting :— - 



A description of a new species of Coluber (Naia), by Walter Elliot 

 Esq. 



This paper was read and discussed by the meeting ; the stuffed skin 

 of the animal, and a large coloured drawing, were exhibited. 



(Published in our present number.) 



Notes, principally geological, on Southern India, by Lieut. Newbold^ 

 with illustrative specimens of rocks, 



(Published in this number.) 



Continuation of Mr. Jerdon's Ornithology of Southern India. 



60 original drawings of birds, by native artists, coloured from nature 

 under Mr. Jerdon's own direction, were laid on the table, and excited 

 general admiration at their beauty as works of art, and their fidelity to 

 nature. It was intimated that Mr. Jerdon was desirous of publishing 

 a series in lithograph, in the style of those given in illustration of his 

 Catalogue in this Journal, 



An account of the direction taken, and effects produced, by a current 

 of electric fluid, which struck the house at the top of Palaveram hillj 

 the property of Colonel Monteith, who witnessed the event :— Commu- 

 nicated by T. J. Taylor, Esq. H» C. Astronomer (with a plan). 



