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logical, Linnasan, and Statistical Socictic?; ; Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society 130 



X. — Beryl Mine of Paddioor, nnd Gcognosti'c Position of 

 this Gem, in Coimbatoor, Si'Uthern India. — By Licntenant 

 Newbold, Madras Army, A. 1). C. to Brigadier-General 

 Wilson, C. B 171 



XL— On the Functions of the Colouring Matter of the Skin in 

 the Dark Races of Mankind. — By Bouert Mortjmi^r 

 Glover, M.D., Lecturer on Chemistry in the Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne Scliool of jMedicine 



XII. — Proceeding^; of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary 



of the Royal Asiatic Society 181 



XIII.— 3Ieteorology 



Horary Meteorological Obsen'ations made agreeably with 

 the suggestions of Siu John IIerschel 187 



Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observa- 

 tory ; for the mouths of April, May and June 1840. , ]89 



