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62 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. 278. COSSIPUR ALMANAC, 1855-6, pp. 116. 279. GOPAL CHANDRA'S ALMANAC, pp. 144. 280. MADHAV CHANDRA'S ALMANAC, pp. 144. 281. NEW ALMANAC 1855-6,'Su S. 1, pp.88, 1* as. 282. RAMESH WAR'S ALMANAC, 1855-6, pp. 96, lias. 283. SERAMPUR ALMANAC, began 1840, Ser Ch. C, pp. 234, 8 as. 4,000 copies sold, circulates as far as Asam, Kangpur, Benares, follows the Nuddea Almanac, has a number cf mythological pictures. 284. SIDESHWUR GHOSE'S ALMANAC fop 1855-6. A I. N., 1855, pp. 96., 9,000 copies : 3 as, 285. VERNACULAR LITERATURE COMMIT- TEE'S ALMANAC, 1855-6, pp. 119, 5 as., Roz. & Co., Started in 1854, with the design of giving all that was true in Native Almanacs with much additional information of a na- ture interesting to natives in the Mofussil. such as sun rising and setting, moon's ditto, tide for each day in the year— the various mclas through Bengal, where and when held — munaifs and vakils' examinations, small cause court, agricultural work for each month in the year : Indian diseases and their cure ; railway fares and rules : Deputy Magistrates and Collectors. PERIODICALS— ENCYCLOPAEDIAS. in 1818, an Encyclopaedia was commenced at Se- rampur, but only one part was completed, CAREY'S ANA* TOMY. In 1828 the Society for translating European Sciences, H. Wilson, President, started the Vispan Sebadki, a serial on the plan of the Library of Useful Knowledge, it reach- ed 15 Nos., embracing Indian Geography, Hydrostatics, Mecha- nics, Optics, Pneumatics and Brougham's Discourse on the ad- vantage of Science, the latter tr. by Kasi Prasad Ghose. In 1846 was started, under the patronage of Government, BANEUJEA'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA, designed as a series of publications on history, science, literature, compiled from various source. Two editions were published, an Anglo