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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal December 1836

1836

It is now in the power of any person who travels through countries where the crust of the globe is untouched by the hammer of the geologist." to contribute to the advancement of this the youngest of the sciences. [...] In the skull of the existing elephant the excess of longitudinal measurement over that in the contrary direction owing to the great development of the superior portion of the cranium is one of the most marked peculiarities of its form ; the height from the external nasal.opening to the top or apex of the cranium is immense although undergoing modification from age ; this excessive developmen [...] lastly the feeble feet are remarkable for the sub-equality of the toes and talons the rougness and levelness of the soles and the size and depression of the thumbs. [...] The singular short filifortn process attaehed to the extremity of the foot appears to be the termination of a nerve or minute canal which is seen extending directly up the centre of the foot until it is lost under the opereuluru: The excrement is voided from the right side of the animal.782 NC» atura a new Genus of Montana. [...] The sudden deflexion of the last whorl above the aperture and the consequent depression and constriction of the aperture is a singular feature in the shell and in conjunction with its compressed form led to my pronouncing the species to be a type of a distinct genus before I became acquainted with the animal or the operculum.
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Pages
91
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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I.—Geological Notes on the Northern Conkan and a small portion of Guzerat and Kattywar. By Charles Lush. M. D.
761-768 James Prinsep view
II.—Note on Mastodons of the Sewaliks. By Capt. P. T. Cautley Superintendent of the Doab Canal. Pl. XL
768-770 James Prinsep view
III.—Additions to the Ornithology of Nepal. By B. H. Hodgson Esq.
770-781 James Prinsep view
IV.—Description of the Shell and Animal of Nematura a new Genus of Mollusca inhabiting situations subject to alterations of fresh and brackish water. By W.H. Benson. Esq. B.C.S.
781-782 James Prinsep view
V.—Note on the Genus Plerocyclos of Mr. Benson and Spiraculum of Mr. Pearson. By Dr. William Bland
783-784 James Prinsep view
VI.—Note on the Nautical Instruments of the Arabs. By James Prinsep Sec.
784-ii James Prinsep view
VII.—Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions lithographed
795-795 James Prinsep view
VIII.—Description of Uch-Sharif. By Munshi Mohan Lal
796-798 James Prinsep view
IX.—Specimens of the Soil and Salt from the Samar or Sambhur lake Sall Works. Collected by Lieut. Arthur Conolly and Analyzed by Mr. J. Stephenson
798-806 James Prinsep view
X.—Remarks on a Collection of Plants Made at Sadiyd Upper Assam from April to September 1836. By William Griffith Assistant Surgeon Madras Establishment on Duty in Upper Assam
806-813 James Prinsep view
XI.—Note on a Remnant of the Hun Nation.[Vide Chap. 26 of the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” tender the head of “ Original Seat of the Hans.”] By Captain W. Foley
813-814 James Prinsep view
XII.—Table shewing the Breadth of the River Satlaj and the Rate of its Current at Different stages from Harrike Pattan to its Junction with the Indus at Mithankot
814-815 James Prinsep view
XIII.—A Comparative view of the Daily Range of the Barometer in Different parts of India. By James Prinsep Sec. As. Soc. &c.
816-827 James Prinsep view
XIV.—Postscript to the Memoir on the Depression of the Wet-bulb Thermometer Published in the July Number. By Jas Prinsep Sec. &c.
828-828 James Prinsep view
XV.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
828-835 James Prinsep view
XVI.—Meteorological Register
836-836 James Prinsep view
Index
837-840 James Prinsep view

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