42- DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. Germination, Spon<rioles, Changing Soil round Roots, Roots •' extending, Eyes ot Potatoe, Edible Roots, Tubers, Bulbs, Creeping Roots, (6) Stem-cells, Medullary Rays, Bark, Age of Trees, Quinine, Cork, Tannery, Chinese Paper j Sago, Juices in Stems, Varnish, Cow Tree, Mahogany, Fir, (7) Leaf- veins, i Pores of Plants, Evaporation, Prussic Acid, Use of Leaves, Light on Leaves, Evergreens, Fall of Leaf, (8) Climbing Plants, Water Plants, Stinging Nettle, Thorns are Buds,
- Buds, Balls on Trees, Smell of Flowers varies, (9) Flower con-
' tains Seeds, Corolla, Calyx, Stamens, Pistil, Pollen,' Bees, Honey Flower opening, (10) Seed in Pulp, Pod, Nutmeg, . Passion Flower, Fir Cones, Oil from Seeds, (11) Grass, its peculiar Leaves, Use in Embankments, Oats, Flint in Straw, Sugar-cane, Bambu. 182. QUESTIONS, 258, ON NATURAL HIS- TORY, Roz. & Co., Prashnavali, pp. 16, 1 an. Roz.&Co. by J. Long. Questions on the animal, vegetable and mineral king- doms, taken from objects in this country — designed to call forth ' the curiosity of young people and shew them the wonders
- existing in common objects around them. -
N^TUnAL PHIIOSOPHV. In 1816 was published at Serampore, Jyeoi^wA, a Work on Astronomy. In 1833 a very useful serial, was started by a Society called the European Science Translating Society, under the superintendence of Professor Wilson, J. Sutherland, and others, called the Vigydn Sebadhi, comprising the following subjects in NATURAL PHILOSOPHY— ASTRONOMY, HYDROSTATICS, MECHANICS, OPTICS, PNEUMA- TICS : the work was patronised by Government, and by a number of natives, but no encouragement was given at that day to popular education, and the publication stopped after reaching 15 no?. In 1833 Maha Raja Kali Krishna published, in Anglo Bengali, an INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, pp. 122, compiled and translated by him- self, giving in Catechetical form definitions and short explana- tions on the following subjects — logic, physics, meteorology, tides, the Belles Lettres, fine arts, astronomy, geography, &c. Ac. In 1834 he gave a Diagram of the Solar System for the use of schools, compiled and translated by himself. ' j 183. ASTRONOMY, Ferguson's Abridgment of, byf
