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Art. I.— | Chinese Feast to Disembodied Spirits.—By Lieutenant T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier General Wilson, c. b. Member of the Asiatic Societies of Madras and Bengal |
255 |
II.— | A brief notice of some of the Persian Poets.—By Lieut T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier General Wilson, c. b. |
264 |
III.— | Memoir Descriptive of the Vurragherry and Kunnundaven Mountains.—By the late Captain B. S. Ward, of the Surveyor General's Department |
280 |
IV.— | Meteorological Experiments made on the Goomsoor Mountains.—By Lieutenant John Campbell, Assistant Surveyor General |
295 |
V.— | Suggestions for an Apparatus for Registering the Tides.—By Lieutenant J. Campbell. |
300 |
VI.— | On the relative proportion between Circular bodies and their Squares.—By Captain Cortlandt Taylor, of the Madras Artillery |
301 |
VII.— | Heights of the Neilgherry Hills.—By Captain J. Underwood, Madras Engineers |
303 |
VIII— | Some Account of the New Colony of Western Australia, more especially of the Swan River District, the Natives, Settlers, Climate, Soil, Productions, &c.—By William Milligan, Esq. m. d., Asst.-Surgeon H. M. 63d Regt.—Staff Surgeon at Poonamallee |
304 |
IX.— | Account of the Construction and Operation of an Experimental Self-registering Barometer.—By William Gilchrist, Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment. |
337 |
X.— | Horary Meteorological Observations made at the Equinoxes and Solstices, agreeably with the suggestion of Sir John Herschel. |
1st.— | At the Trevandrum Observatory.—By J. Caldecott, Esq. |
339 |
2d.— | At Hoonsoor, in Mysore.—By Wm. Gilchrist, Esq |
340 |
XI.— | Monthly Abstract of the Daily Atmospherical Register, kept at Merkara in Coorg, from 1st June 1836 to 31st May 1837.—By Robert Baikie, Surg. Madras Med. Est. |
342 |