CONTENTS. 



XII.— Observations on Professor Wilson's Historical Sketch of 

 the Kingdom of Pandya, in the Sixth Number of the 

 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. — By the Rev. 



Wm. Taylor 142 



XIII. — Horary Meteorological Observations made at the Equi- 

 noxes and Solstices, agreeably with the suggestion of 

 Sir John Herschel. 

 1st.— At the Madras Observatory.— By T. G. Taylor, Esq. 158 

 2d.— At Hoonsoor, in Mysore. — By Wm. Gilchrist, Esq. 159 

 3d. — At the Trevandrum Observatory. — By John Cal- 



decott, Esq 161 



XIV. — Notices of Books. 



Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society 



of India. Vol. 3d 163 



XV. — Selections. 



1. — Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya, Southern 



Peninsula of India, by Horace Hayman Wilson, Esq. 



Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford 176 



Supplementary Note to the Historical Sketch of the 

 Kingdom of Pandya.— By H, H. Wilson 217 



2. — Observations of the Magnetic Dip and Intensity at 



Madras.— By T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer. . 220 



3. — Report upon a Letter addressed by M. le Baron de 



Humboldt to His Royal Highness the President of the 

 Royal Society, and communicated by His Royal High- 

 ness to the Council 224 



4. — Remarks on the Gamboge Tree of Ceylon, and Character 



of Hebradendron, a new Genus of Guttiferae, and that 

 to which the Tree belongs. — By Robert Graham, m. d. 236 



Literary and Scientific Intelligence. 



Earthquake at Ganjam 246 



Lieut. Lake's note regarding the Pamban Passage ib. 



The Malay Tapir 247 



Proposed English and Hindustani Dictionary ib. 



Professor WheW ell's suggestions for Observations of the 

 Tides 243 



Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observatory, 

 for the Months of April, May and June. — By T. G. 

 Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer 251 



