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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1860

1861

The greater portion of the mountains north of the Punjab the vast tract of Nepal the interior alleys of Sikkitn Bhutan Assam.vith the mountains both north and south of it Arratan and with the few exceptions mentioned the Malay penidtsula are totally unsearched. [...] From these characters we should infer that Opisthostoma holds an intermediate place between A/yeants and Diplummatina resembling the former in the strangulation and distortion of the last whorl the latter in the pupiform shape and in the rise of the last whorl upon the penultimate and both in the duplication of the peristome and in the tegular costulate ornamentation : but the peculiar disto[...] The foot is short broad and rounded at the tail the tentacles are black rather short and contractile with the eyes at their base the body is colourless with the exception of black patches above the head and at the base of the tentacles. [...] Indeed beyond the fact that the flood had come from the Gilgit river as reported by natives and as shewn by its carrying away the well known gateway of the Ntimbtil Fort nothing positive was known as to the cause of the flood or of the exact site of the place dammed up though the Boonjee sepoys believed that it came from the Naggar valley which is drained by au Eastern tributary of the Gilgit r [...] The first moveable spine of the anterior dorsal fin is the length of the second and the third is a little shorter than the second.
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Pages
124
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Contributions to Indian Malacology No. I.—By Messrs. W.T. and H.F. Blanford of the Geological Survey of India
117-127 The Secretaries view
Memorandum on the Great Flood of the River Indus which Reached Attok on the 10th August 1858.—By Captain T.G. Montgomerie Bengal Engineers F.R.G.S. 1st Asst. G.T. Survey of India &c
128-135 The Secretaries view
Memorandum on Mr. Blyth’s Paper on the Animals Known as Wild Asses.—By Major R. Strachey F.R.S.F.; F.L.S.
136-137 The Secretaries view
Report on Some Fishes Received Chiefly from the Sitang River and its Tributary Streams Tenasserim Provinces.—By Ed. Blyth
138-174 The Secretaries view
Memorandum on the Irawadi River with a Monthly Register of its Rise and Fall from 1856 to 1858 and a Measurement of its Minimum Discharge.—By Lieut.-Col. A. Cunningham
175-183 The Secretaries view
Attempts of Asiatic Sovereigns to Establish a Paper Currency.—By E.B. Cowell M.A.
183-196 The Secretaries view
On Recent Russian Researches.—By Rev. J. Long
197-199 The Secretaries view
Literary Intelligence
200-201 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for April 1860
202-215 The Secretaries view
Note by the Editors
i-i The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations Taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the Month of September 1859
xxv-xlvii The Secretaries view

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