CONTENTS. 



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rt. I.— Chinese Feast to Disembodied Spirits.— By Lieutenant 

 T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier General 

 Wilson, c. b. Member of the Asiatic Societies of 



Madras and Bengal 25 5 



II.— A brief notice of some of the Persian Poets.— By Lieut. 

 T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier General 



Wilson, c. b. 264 



HI. — Memoir Descriptive of the Vurragherry and Kunnun- 

 daven Mountains. — By the late Captain B. S, Ward, 

 of the Surveyor General's Department 280 



IV. — Meteorological Experiments made on the Goomsoor 



Mountains. -By Lieutenant John Campbell, Assistant 

 Surveyor General 295 



V. — Suggestions for an Apparatus for Registering the Tides. — 



By Lieutenant J. Campbell , 300 



VI.— On the relative proportion between Circular bodies and 

 their Squares.— By Captain Cortlandt Taylor, of the 



Madras Artillery 301 



VII.— Heights of the Neilgherry Hills.— By Captain J. Under- 

 wood, Madras Engineers . . . , 303 



VIII.— Some Account of the New Colony of Western Australia, 

 more especially of the Swan River District, the Natives, 

 Settlers, Climate, Soil, Productions, &c— By William 

 Milligan, Esq. m. d., Asst.-Surgeon H. M. 63d Regt. — 



Staff Surgeon at Poonamallee 304 



IX.— Account of the Construction and Operation of an Experi- 

 mental Self-registering Barometer.— By William 

 Gilchrist, Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment. 33/ 



X. — Horary Meteorological Observations made at the Equi- 



noxes and Solstices, agreeably with the suggestion of 



Sir John Herschel. 

 1st. — At the Trevandrum Observatory. — By J. Caldecott, Esq. 339 

 2d.— At Hoonsoor, in Mysore.— By Wm. Gilchrist, Esq 340 



XI. — Monthly Abstract of the Daily Atmospherical Register, 



kept at Merkara in Coorg, from 1st June 1836 to 31st 

 May 1837.— By Robert Baikie, Surg. Madras Med. E ^ 342 



