XXXI 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, &C. 
nicated by the Chief Secretary to Government] .—On the Fre*h Water Fishes 
of Southern India. By T. C, Jerdon, Esq., Assistant Surgeots , Madras Esta¬ 
blishment.—Notice of the Scientific Labors of the late Dr Alexander Turnbull 
Christie, with extracts from his Official Reports submitted to Government*—. 
On the Thermal Springs of Calwa and Mahanandi in the Kurnool province! 
By Captain Newbold, F. R. S. ? Mem. of the Philomathique and Geologica* 
Societies of France, &c.—Description of a new species of Terrestrial Flanariat 
By Mr Walter Elliot, Civil Service, with a Ulate.—Account of an attcrop 
to form an Artesian Well at Tuticorin. From Official Papers.—Analysis of 
Mackenzie Manuscripts. By the Rev. William Taylor.—Report of the Com¬ 
mittee of the Committee of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Madras, for the 
year 1848. Communicated by Major Reid, c.b., Secretary of the Society.— 
Meteorological Observations made at tbe Madras Magnetic Observatory, from 
January to December, 1848.—Night. By tbe late Rev. Thomas Halls, a, b.— 
Notices.— On tbe Prices of Indian Grains.—Health of Troops in India.—On 
Almospheric disturbances throughout the world, and on a remarkable Storm at 
Bombay, on the 5th of April, 1848.—By Colonel Sykes.—Minerals of Ceylon. 
—Preceedings of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asia¬ 
tic Society. 
3 Dr Medhurst has sent us the prospectus of a publication 
which he intends to commence at Shanghai. It is on the same 
plan as the Malayan Miscellanies which were printed at Ben- 
coolen in 1822, and which we consider a very excellent one, 
when a constant supply of matter cannot be calculated on. Dr 
Medhurst’s great abilities and acquirements are too well known 
to need any assurance from us that whatever papers he may 
publish will be valuable. As we have failed to attract con¬ 
tributions to this Journal from China, we are glad that a 
medium will now be furnished in that country itself for illus¬ 
trating those numerous interesting subjects mentioned by 
Dr M. with which we are so imperfectly acquainted. We 
shall be happy to receive the names of subscribers, and as 
the best means in our power of seconding Dr Medhurst’s pro¬ 
ject, we subjoin his prospectus at length. 
In the press , and speedily will he published, the first number of a 
CHINESE MISCELLANY, 
To be followed in succession by other numbers, Designed to illustrate the 
Government, Philosophy, Religion , Arts, Manufactures , Trade, Manners and 
Customs, History and Statistics of China , edited by W. H. Medhurst, Sen t 
The above work is intended to be, as its name imports, a miscellaneous col¬ 
lection of original articles, treating on China, published as matter may be 
furnished, without reference to the order of subjects ; but designed, after the 
work has made considerable progress, to be collected together into volume*, 
arranged according to the things treated of. For this purpose, each article will 
be paged and titled separately, so that the various numbers can be tranposed, 
*nd bound up, in any way the purchasers may think proper. The article* will 
not be of equal length ; they may amount either to a single sheet or twenty, as 
the case may be ; or the same subject may be alluded to repeatedly, in various 
numbers, as new matter may be furnished, or ihe importance of the subject 
demand 1 n order, however, to insure definiteness as to expense, the 
price will be ten cents per sheet of 16 pages, or 160 pages for a dollar. Tins 
