CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I.-On the Geographical Limits, History, and Chronology of the

Chera Kingdom of Ancient India. By MR. J. DowSON

ART. II.-On the Rock-Cut Temples of India. By JAMES FERGUSSON,

Esq.

ART. III.-Notes on Indian Agriculture, as practised in the Western or

Bombay Provinces of India. By ALEXANDER GIBSON, Esq.,

Superintendent of the Botanic Garden of Daporee

ART. IV.-A Letter to RICHARD CLARKE, ESQ., Honorary Secretary to

the Royal Asiatic Society, on the Oriental MSS. in the Library of

Eton College

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ART. V.-Abstract of a Discourse, by DR. FALCONER, on the Fossil

Fauna of the Sewalik Hills

ART. VI.—On the Identification of the Mustard Tree of Scripture. By

J. FORBES ROYLE, M.D., F.R.S., L.S., and G.S., &c., Professor

of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, King's College, London

ART. VII.-Summary of the Geology of Southern India. By CAPTAIN

NEWBOLD, F.R.S., &c., Assistant Commissioner for Kurnool

ART. VIII.—A few Observations on the Temple of Somnath. By CAP-

TAIN POSTANS

ART. IX.-Report on some of the Rights, Privileges, and Usages of the

Hill Population in Meywar. By CAPTAIN W. HUNTER, of the

Meywar Bhil Corps

ART. X.-On the Hyssop of Scripture. By J. FORBES ROYLE, M.D.,

F.R.S., L.S., and G.S., &c., Professor of Materia Medica and

Therapeutics, King's College, London

ART. XI.-Summary of the Geology of Southern India. By CAPTAIN

NEWBOLD, F.R.S., &c., Assistant Commissioner for Kurnool

ART. XII.-The Chenchwars; a wild Tribe, inhabiting the Forests of

the Eastern Ghauts. By CAPTAIN NEWBOLD, F.R.S., &c.,

Assistant Commissioner for Kurnool.

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ART. XIII.-Account of Aden. By J. P. MALCOLMSON, ESQ., Civil and
Staff Surgeon

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ART. XIV.-Narrative of an Excursion from Pesháwer to Sháh-Báz

Ghari. By C. MASSON, ESQ.

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ART. XV.-On the Kapur-di-Giri Rock Inscription. By MR. E. NORRIS 301

Note by the DIRECTOR

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Geology of Southern India

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ART. XVI.—Analysis of the Ganesa Purána, with special reference to

the History of Buddhism. By the REV. DR. STEVENSON

ART. XVII.-The Ante-Brahmanical Religion of the Hindus. By the

REV. DR. STEVENSON

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ART. XVIII-Memorandum on certain Fossils, more particularly a new

Ruminant found at the Island of Perim, in the Gulf of Cambay.

By ALBEMARLE BETTINGTON, Esq., of the Bombay Civil

Service, F.G.S., M.R.A.S.

ART. XIX.-Extract from a Letter addressed by PROFESSOR WESTER-

GAARD to the REV. DR. WILSON, in the year 1843, relative to the

Gabrs in Persia

ART. XX.-Visit to the Bitter Lakes, Isthmus of Suez, by the bed of the

ancient Canal of Nechos, the "Khalij al Kadim" of the Arabs, in

June, 1842. By CAPTAIN NEWBOLD, F.R.S.

ART. XXI.-On the Secret Triad Society of China, chiefly from Papers

belonging to the Society found at Hong Kong. By the REV.

C. GUTZLAFF

ART. XXII.-The Cinnamon Trade of Ceylon, its Progress and Present

State. By JOHN CAPPER, ESQ.

ART. XXIII.-Reports on the Manchur Lake, and Aral and Narra

Rivers. By CAPTAIN POSTANS, and R. C. KNIGHT, ESQ., com-

municated by CAPTAIN POSTANS

ART. XXIV.-On the traces of Feudalism in India, and the condition of

Lands now in a comparative state of Agricultural Infancy. By

the late AUGUSTUS PRINSER, ESQ.

ART. XXV.-Extracts from a Report on Chota Nagpore. By S. T.

CUTHBERT, ESQ., Magistrate, Ramghur

Notes on the Perim Fossil. By PROFESSOR OWEN .

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