CONTENTS. 



Page. 



I. Report of Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal 



Asiatic Society, on writing Indian Words in Roman Cha- 

 racters 179 



II. On the substitution of the Roman for the Indian characters. 



By Dr. Caldwell 243 



III. On the occurrence of Crystalline Limestone in the vicinity of 



Trichinopoly. By W. King, Esq., Geological Survey of India. 272 



IV. Memorandum of the Fort and Hindoo Temple at Vellore and 



others in its neighbourhood, as recorded in A. D. 1815. By 

 Lieut. H. P. Hawkes, Sub Asst. Corny. Genl 274 



V. Report on Lead Ores in the Cuddapah District. By P. W. 



Wall, Esq., Mineral Viewer 279 



SELECTIONS. 



1. — Official Reports on the last Journeys and the Death of 

 Adolphe Schlagintweit in Turkistan. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



1. — Report on the Progress of the Magnetic Survey, and of the 

 Researches connected with it, from Nov. 1855 to April 1856. 

 By Robert Schlagintweit. 2. — Report on the Proceedings 

 of the Magnetic Survey, from January to May 1856. By 

 Hermann Schlagintweit. 3. — A Storm at Chicacole. 4. — 

 A Storm at Tranquebar. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



1. — Proceedings of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 



rary Society, Oct. 14th, 1858. 359 



2. — Do. do. do. do. Nov. 11th, 1858. 360 



3. — Do. do. do. do. Dec. 9th, 1858. 361 



4. — Do. do. do. do. Jan. 13th, 1859. 362 



5. — Do. do. do. do. Feb. 10th, 1859. 364 



6. — Do. do. do. do. Mar. 17th, 1859. 365 



7. — Proceedings of the Agri- Horticultural Society, Oct. 27th 1858. 366 



8. — Do. do. do. do. Nov. 24th, 1858. 368 



9. — Do. do. do. do. Dec. 22nd, 1858. 369 



10. — Do. do. do. do. Jan. 12th, 1859. 370 



11. — Do. do. do. do. Feb. 2nd, 1859. 373 



12. — Proceedings of the Photographic Society, Feb. 4th, 1859. 374 



13. — Do. do. do. do. Mar. 3rd, 1859. 376 



METEOROLOGY. 



Extract from Meteorological Observations kept at the Madras Ob- 

 servatory, from Oct, 1858 to March 1859 . .379,380 



