CONTENTS. 



XI.— Extract from Report on the Vegetable Products of the Pulney 

 Hills. By Lieutenant ft. H. Becldome, Assistant Conservator 

 of Forests. - - - - - 163 



XII. — Notes of an excursion along the Travancore Backwater. By Capt. 



Heber Drury, 45th N. I. - - - - 203 



XIII. — Numismatic Gleanings. By Walter Elliot, Madras Civil Service. 220 



XIV. — Notes on various subjects. By Lieutenant H. P. Hawkes, Sub- 



Assist. Corny. General. .... 249 



SELECTIONS. 



1.— The Royal Society. 2.— The Geographical Society. - - 256 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



1.— The Scientific Expedition of the Austrian Frigate " Novara." 2. — 

 Notes and Queries. 3. — Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. 

 4.— The Late Dr. Stocks of the Bombay Army. - - 271 



PROCEEDINGS. 



1.— The Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society and Auxi- 

 liary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Thursday evening, February 

 11th, and 18th March 1858. - 275 



METEOROLOGY. 



Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Observa- 

 tory for January, February, March, April and May 1858. - - 280 



