Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 1

Bishop's College Press, 1832 - Asia

JANUARY	1

Directions for collecting and preserving Plants in Foreign Countries By	7

On the Native Method of making the Paper denominated in Hindustan Nipa	8

Examination of Minerals from	14

Comparison of the Indus and Ganges Rivers	20

Explanation of the Sketches of the Horns of the Jarâi Plate V	30

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE	34

Medical and Physical Society	35

Translation of a Tibetan Fragment by Mr Csoma de Körös with Remarks by H H Wilson	269

each year of their residence in India By H T Prinsep Esq Secretary to Government c	277

On the Gypsum of the Himalaya By Capt P T Cautley	289

Climate of Chirra Púnji	297

Proceedings of the Asiatic Society	298

Natural History Society of the Manritius	302

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGence 1 Boring for Water in France	303

On the Mammalia of Nepal By B H Hodgson Esq C	335

Meteorological Register for May No 6 JUNE	36

Account of the Honorable Companys Botanic Garden at Seháranpúr	41

Further Illustrations of the Antilope Hodgsonii By B H Hodgson	59

Note relative to the Account of the Jarâi published in the Gleanings No 14	66

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE	71

88	79

On the Poetry of Madagascar By the Rev Mr Baker	96

Natural History Society of the Mauritius	119

Account of Barren Island	128

A Sketch of the Route and Progress of Lieut A Burnes and Dr Gerard	139

Mode of Extracting the Gold Dust from the Sand of the Ningthee River	148

Abstract of Meteorological Tables kept at Bancoora by Mr J MacRitchie	154

Catalogue of Mammalia observed in the Dakhan By Major W H Sykes	161

Meteorological Register for March	169

Analysis of the Chinese Varnish By Mr I Macaire Prinsep	183

Geological Sketch of Masúri and Landour in the Himalaya together with	193

Analysis of the Puránas By H H Wilson Sec As Soc	198

ib	205

214	214

Some Observations on the Quantity of Earthy Matter brought down by the Ganges River By the Rev R Everest	238

Note on the Magic Mirrors of Japan By James Prinsep Sec Ph Cl As Soc	242

Description of the Native Manufacture of Steel in Southern India By Dr Voysey	245

PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES 1 Asiatic SocietyPhysical Class Chirra Púnji Coal Salem Iron Works 2 Medical and Physical Society 3 Agricultural a...	248

Memoir of Giuseppe dAmato	349

Proceedings of the Asiatic SocietyPhysical Class	363

Meteorological Table for August	375

On the Ancient Roman Coins in the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society By James	392

277	402

Observations of the Transit of Mercury By ditto	408

Extract of a letter from Lieut Alex Burnes dated Balkh 11th June 1832	418

Supposed Change of Climate of the Northern parts of the Earth	424

Meteorological Table for September	431

On the Standard Weights of England and India	442

476	443

Remarks on a late Paper in the Asiatic Journal on the Gypsum of the Hima	450

Note on the Jabalpúr Fossil Bones By James Prinsep Sec	456

193	464

289	466

Notice of the peculiar Tenets held by the followers of Syed Ahmed taken chiefly	479

Description of an Instrument for trisecting Angles By Lieut T S Burt Engi	499

Abstract of Observations of the Temperature Pressure and Hygrometrical	506

Some additional Observations on the quantity of Earthy Matter brought down	549

On the Indications of the Pulse according to the Hindús	553

Proceedings of the Asiatic Society	559

EUROPEAN SCIENTIC INTElligence	568

559	575

Title	Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 1
Contributor	Asiatic Society of Bengal
Publisher	Bishop's College Press, 1832
Original from	Princeton University
Digitized	18 Aug 2009

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