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Art. I.— Notes on the Code and Historical MSS. of the Siamese 



and on the Progress of Buddhism to the Eastward. — By- 

 Lieutenant T. J. Newbold 1 



II. — On the Language, Manners and Rites, of the Khoonds, 

 or Khoi J ati, of the Goomsoor Mountains ; from docu- 

 ments furnished by J. A. R. Stevenson, Esq. Commis- 

 sioner in Goomsoor, and W. G. Maxwell, Esq. m. d.; 

 with illustrative and connecting Observations. — By the 

 Reverend W. Taylor 17 



III. — Abstract of Eight Months' Meteorological Observations 



at Moulmein.— By James Dalmahoy, Esq. of the 

 Madras Medical Establishment 47 



IV. — Description of an Observatory lately established at Tre- 



vandrum, by His Highness the Rajah of Travancore. 

 — By John Caldecott, Esq — Astronomer to His 

 Highness , 56 



V. — The Objections made by T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. E. I. C.'s 



Astronomer to the Balance Self-Registering Barometer, 

 considered; and further Remarks respecting that In- 

 strument. — By William Gilchrist, Esq » 60 



VI. — Further Remarks regarding a Plan for an Indestructable 

 Barometer and Self-Registernig Apparatus.— By Cap- 

 tain George Underwood, Madras Engineers 69 



VII.— Notice (with a plate) of the Cassia Burmanni, with Re- 

 marks on the Materia Medica of India.— By Robert 



Wight, Esq. m. d., f. l. s., &c 71 



VIII.— On the Structure and Habits of the Elanus Melanopterus.— 



By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. British Resident in Nipal .... 75 

 IX.— Remarks on the Cultivation of Cotton ; principally with 

 reference to the finer Foreign Varieties.— By Robert 

 Wight, Esq. m. d. &c. &c. &c » 79 



X.— -Account of the Operations for widening the Channel of 

 the Pamban Passage in the Gulf of Manar.— By 



Colonel W. Monteith, k. l. s., Chi ef Engineer . , 



XI.— Remarks on the use of Captain Kater's Altitude and 

 Azimuth Instrument.— By Lieutenant J. Campbell, 

 Assistant Surveyor General » 



