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CONTENTS. 



Page. 



4. — Death of Mr. Purdie - - - - -142 



5. — The Scientific Expedition of the Austrian Frigate " Novara." - 264 



6. — Notes and Queries. - 266 



7. — -Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. - - 268 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



1. — The Revd. Dr. Schmid. - - - - 143 



2. — Assistant Surgeon Charles Drew. :- - 146 



3. — Mr. Henry Walker, Professor of Anatomy, &c. Calcutta. - - 147 



4. — E. Stocks, Esq., M. D. Bombay Medical Service. - - 272 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



1 Thwaites' Enumeration of the Plants of Ceylon. - - 149 



2. — Livingstone's Travels and Researches in South Africa. - - 149 



3. — Decandolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetahilis - 152 



4. — Hooker's Journal of Botany. - - - - 153 



5. — Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - «. 153 



6. — The Plant Scenery of the World. - - - - 153 



PROCEEDINGS. 



1. — Proceedings of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary So- 



ciety, November 12th, 1857. - - - - - 154 



2. Do. do. do. December 10th, 1857. - 157 



3. Do. do. do. February 11th, 1858. - 274 

 3. Do. do. do. March 18th, 1858. - 275 



METEOROLOGY. 



Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Observa- 

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



