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could not be paid without actual starvation. It may be interesting to liira to know 
the practice by the Taluqddrs and others in this neighbourhood, which is in 
common crops/such as wheat, to take half in all ordinary cases. This season’s Rabi 
is considered below an average crop here, and I have known no instance of less 
than half being taken ; while one case occurred iu my presence of three-fifths being 
taken on a very good crop. In superior products, such as indigo, sugar, &c., a 
much greater proportion is claimed by the Zemindar from the Cis&ns. 
Camp , near Ally ghur , May, 1830. I am, Sir, &c. M. 
6. Rain in Calcutta. 
To the Editor of Gleanings in Science. 
Mr. Editor,— Can you put me in the way of consulting any Meteorological Re- 
gisters kept in Calcutta", prior to 1827 ? From the middle of that year a very com- 
plete register has been kept at the Surveyor General’s office ; but I have not met 
with any of older date, except what are contained in the two first volumes of the 
Asiatic Researches, and Mr. Kyd’s account of the fail of rain during 16 months of 
1821-22. I am anxious to collect information as extensive as possible on the sub- 
ject of the variations of season, in respect to the number of showei*s and quantity of 
rain which falls in different months of the year ; and rely upon the ability of some 
of your subscribers to contribute the result ot their own experiiiients, from their 
readiness when called upon to do so. C. 
7. Col. Lambton's Tomb. 
In our sketch of this officer’s life, published in our last number, we mentioned that 
it was suggested to Government to erect a monument over his remains, but that we 
did not know whether the suggestion had been attended to. A correspondent re- 
quests us to state, that a suitable structure was erected by order of Mr. Jenkins, 
the then Resident at Nagpur ; but whether at his own expense or of that of Govern- 
ment, he cannot say. He adds, that it was the intention of the Bengal Officers, then 
stationed at Nagpfir , to build a monument to his memory, on the Sitabaldi hill ; and a 
plan was drawn out for it : hut the relief of the Bengal troops by those of the Madras 
Presidency, interfered with the execution. Whether the latter officers have ever 
done any thing, our correspondent is ignorant. 
8. Nepaul Paper. 
In the April number of Brewster’s Edinburgh Journal of Science will be found, 
among the proceedings of the Society of Arts for Scotland, page 36 5, a notice on 
the Nepaul Paper , mentioned in the 7th number of Gleanings in Science, from 
which it appears that the paper shewn did not take a good impression from a cop- 
per plate. Mention is also made of a paper from Indian corn, the impression of 
which was good. W. H. B. 
X . — Proceedings of Societies. 
1. Medical and Physical Society. 
Saturday , 6th February . 
Dr. T, Stewart, of the Bombay Establishment, was elected a Member. 
The Secretary submitted to the meeting an account of the bite of a snake, 
successfully treated, communicated by Brigadier Wilson, commanding at Nasera- 
Md. This account, together with Dr. Wise’s observations on intestinal wounds, 
and Mr. Dempster’s case of Tumor in the leg of a Native, were then read, and 
made the subjects of discussion. 
There are several points of scientific interest, upon which we understand the 
Committee of the Society are anxious to obtain information from resident 
members ; such as— whether suicide by poison is frequently resorted to by the 
natives, and if so, what poison, (vegetable, animal, or mineral,) and in what 
quantity? The antidotes, if any, usually resorted to. Well authenticated details 
concerning the bites of venomous serpents form also a desideratum in our Eastern 
medical literature. A particular description ot the reptile called Biscopra, and 
believed by the natives to be deadly poisonous, would be also desirable as well 
as a description, and well authenticated particulars of the Cobra Manilla, &c. 
Saturday, 3d April . 
Messrs. C. Mackinnon, senior, and H. Chapman, withdrew their names from 
the list of contributors ; and Mr. T. Clemisliaw, Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Esta- 
blishment, was duly elected a Member. 
