CONTENTS. 



I.-Reportupon fhe Oils of Southern India. By Lieut. H. P. Hawkes 



S. A. C. G. 



II.— Description of the method adopted in the Coimbatore District for 

 catching Wild Elephants. By Captain D. Hamilton, Assistant 

 Conservator of Forests. 



III. — Notice of the occurrence of Crystalline Limestone in the District of 



Coimbatore. By H. F. Blanford, Esq., of the Geological Sur- 

 rey of India. 



IV. -Description of a Cyclone at Nellore, on 2nd November 1857. By 



Lieut. John Mullins, Madras Engineers. - - - 

 V.-Notice of the same Cyclone at Cuddapab, on 2nd November 1857- 

 By Lieut. E. Hemery, Madras Engineers. 



VI. -On the line selected for the Madras Railway. By Colonel T. T 



Pears, Consulting Engineer. 



VII. -A List of Neilgherry Ferns. By the Revd. Dr. B. Schmid. 



VIII. -A List of Neilgherry Mosses. By the Revd. Dr. B. Schmid. 

 IX. -Introductory Report on the Natural History of the Pearl Oyster 



of Ceylon. By E.F Kelaart, m. d. 

 X.-Report on the Tamblegam Pearl Oyster Fishery. By E. F 

 Kelaart, M. d. - 



SELECTIONS. 

 l.-Moths and Bees. 2.-Mode of protecting Timber from Fire - - 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 

 1 -Scientific Mission to India. 2.-Poisoning *ith the Seeds of Thevetia 

 neriifolia. 3.-Coal in Sciade. 4,-Deatn of Mr. Purdie - - - 

 OBITUARY NOTICES. 

 l.-The Revd. Dr. Schmid. 2.-Charles Drew. 3- Henry Walker - 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 1 -Thwaites's Enumeration of the Plants of Ceylon. 2. -Livingstone's 

 Travels and Researches in South Africa. 3.-Decandolle's Prodromus 

 Systematis naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. 4,-Hooker's Journal of 

 Botany. 5.-Journal of the Proceedings of the Linuean Society. 

 6.— The Plant Scenery of the World. 



PROCEEDINGS. 

 1 -The Managing Commit* of the Madras Literary Society and Auxili- 

 ary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Thursday evening, November 12th, 

 and 10th December 1857. 



M ETEOROLOGY. 

 Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Observatory 

 for October, November and December 1857 



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