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CONTENTS. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



1. — Fall of Meteoric Stones. - - - * 130 



2. — Report upon Captain Taylor's proposed Jetty over the Surf at Madras. 133 



3. — Report of the Committee appointed to examine Messrs. Saunders' and 



Mitchells' project for erecting an Iron Pile Pier at Madras. - 135 



4. — Colonel Cotton's project for a Breakwater at Madras. - - 146 



5. — Appearance of Coal at Nellore - - - - - 291 



6. — Specimens of Cotton and information desired with a view to the Chemical 



investigation of the Cotton Plant. ... 294 



7. — Graphite in Travancore. - 295 



8. — Memorandum on the Government Garden, Ootacamund. - 297 



9. — Preservation of Timber. - - - 303 



10. — Height of the Himalayas. 304 



11. — Effects of the Sting of Scorpions. - - - - 304 



12. — How to get rid of Musquitos. .... 304 



13. — The Mulberry Tree with reference to the culture of Silk. - 305 



14. — The Volvox Globator. - - - 306 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



1. — Oriental. 158,311 



2. — Natural History, - 161,312 



3. — Miscellaneous - - - - 162,312 



PROCEEDINGS. 



1. — -Proceedings of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society, 



April 9th, 1857. 186 



2. — Do. do. do. May 14th, 1857. 169 



3. — Do. do. do. June 11th, 1857, 171 



4. — Do. do. do. Aug. 10th, and Sept. 10th, 1857, 315 



METEOROLOGY. 



Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Observatory, 



for March, April & May 1857, - 173 

 Do. do. do. for June, Jul/, August & Sept. 1857, 318 



