CONTENTS. 



Pago. 



I.— A Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken by the Todas of the Nilagri 

 Mountains. By the Rev. F. Metz, of the German Evangelical 

 Mission. (Continued) - - - - - - - -131 



II. —Brief notices of Pelagian Mollusca collected on a voyage from 

 England to Madras, during the months of April, May and June 

 1856. By William Traill, m. d. - 147 



III. — On a Photographic Printing Process. By Captain Tripe, 12th 



Regiment N. I. 166 



IV. — Entomological Papers, being descriptions of new Ceylon Coleop- 



tera with such observations on their habits, etc. as appear in any 

 way interesting. By John Nietner, Colombo, Ceylon. (Nos. II. 

 and III.) - - - - ... i7i 



V.-— Memo, on the subject of Rain Gauges for the Provinces of Mad- 

 ras. By W H. Bayley, Madras Civil Service. - - - - 203 



SELECTIONS. 



1. —Peruvian Bark-tree. 2. — Supposed Aerolite in a tree. 3.— On the Results 

 of the Excavations in Assyria and Babylonia. 4.— Flora Indica. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



L— Mines of Antimony. 2.— Observations on the Graphite or Plumbago of Ku- 

 maon and Travancore. 3.— Coal boring at Kotah. 4,— Meteorological 

 Curves. 5. — New Species of Silk Worm. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



1.— Oriental Literature. 2.— Natural History. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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



2. — Proceedings at the Annual General Meeting of the Madras Literary Society. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Observatory for 

 December 1856, January and February 1857. 



