"It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, in different CALCUTTA: Bishop's College Press. 062 Contents. No. 85.-JANUARY. Page. .... I.—A Grammar of the Pashtoo or Afghanee Language. By Lieut. Leach, II.-Sisupala Badha, or death of Sisupala by Mágha. Translated, with Anno- tations, by J. C. C. Sutherland, Esq. III.-On the Distribution of European Birds. By W. Jameson, Esq., Bengal IV.-On a new Genus of the Fissirostral Tribe. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Cata- 21 .... .... mandu (with plate), VII.-Dr. Burke's Report on the Value of Life among the Officers and Men in (with plate), VIII.-Observations on the Burmese and Munipoor Varnish Tree. Wallich, Esq. M.D. (with plate), III.-Report on the Coal and Iron Mines of Tálcheer and Ungool, &c. &c. By I.-Notice of an Inscription on a Slab discovered in February, 1838, by Capt. T. S. Burt, Bengal Engineers, in Bundelkhund, near Chhatarpur, II.-Account of a Journey to Beylah, and Memoir on the Province of Lus. By III.-On three new species of Musk (Moschus) inhabiting the Himalayan dis- IV.-On Isinglass in Polynemus sele, Buch., a species which is very common in the Estuaries of the Ganges. By J. M'Clelland, Assistant Surgeon, (with |