CONTENTS. 
Page 
Monthly General Meeting in November, .‘. 243 
Acquisition of Coins, . 245 
Presentations to the Indian Museum, . . 246 
Exhibition of Part I of Moore and Hewitson’s Desorptions of New 
Indian Lepidoptera, . . ib. 
Papers — 
1, The Evidence afforded by the Indian Pendulum Observations on 
the Constitution of the Earth’s Crust and on Geodesy.—By 
Major-General J. T. Walker, e. e., c. b., e. r. s., &e.,... ib. 
2 On a simple method of using an insignificant Fraction of the 
Main Current, produced by a Dynamo-Electric Machine, for 
Telegraph purposes.—By Louis Schwendler, m. i. c. e., &e., 
&e. (Abstract), .. 256 
3. Notes on the Survey Operations in Afghanistan during the Cam¬ 
paign of 1878-79; compiled, from Letters and Diaries of the 
Survey Officers, by Major J. Waterhouse. Communicated 
by Major-General J. T. Walker, r. e., c. b., e. r. s. (Ab¬ 
stract), . 257 
4. On the Systematic Position of some little-known Asiatic Man- 
todca, with Descriptions of two new Species belonging to the' 
Genus Uestias. —By J. Wood-Mason. (Abstract),. ib. 
5. Desorption of Sigerpes occidentalism the Type of a new Genus 
of Mantodea from West Africa.—By J. Wood-Mason, (Ab¬ 
stract), . 259 
Library,..'. 260 
In the Press. 
THE ANTIQUITIES OF ORISSA, 
Br 
BA'JENDEALA'LA MITRA, LL. D. 
Volume II. 
Containing detailed descriptions of the Temples of Bhuvaneswara, 
Puri and Canarac. It will extend to about 210 pages folio, and will be 
illustrated with sixty photographs and lithographs. 
