'Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.' [‎24] (51/372)

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GENEEAL INDEX.
from, to the east coast of Africa,
120 - 122 .
^Bombay, Lecture on the Cyclone at,
on the 2d November 1854, by Dr
Buist, xii. 25; importance of meteor
ological observations, and method of
obtaining them, 26; account of the
storm of January 1849, 27-31; the
storms of 1854, 32-41 ; account of
the damage done to property, 42-44;
extracts from ships’ logs, 45-52; facts
deducible from the observations made,
53; state of vegetation during the
season preceding the storm, 56-59.
^Bombay, Lectures on the Chrono-
metrical Survey of the Shores of, by
Dr Buist, xii. 20-22.
^Bombay magnetical and meteorological
observations, report on the, for 1862,
xvii. 92-100.
Bombay, meteorological observations
made at the magnetical observatory
of, in April 1847, viii. 50-53.
Bombay, merchandise annually^exported
to, and imported from, Shirauz, xvii.
158.
Bombay Observatory, xv. 109.
Bombay, on the Geology of, by Dr
Bqist, x. 167-238.
Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , list of the heights
of various places in the, ix. 343, 344.
Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , on the Nature
of the Soils of the, by C. F. Col
lier, ix. 99; extent and physical
features of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , 99; ac
count of the geological features of the
district from Vingorla to Dharwar,
100; from Panwell to Poona, 101;
from Padshpoor to Malligaum, 101 ;
from Tankaria Bunder to Mhow, 102;
from the east of Surat to Mount
Aboo, 103; from Ahmedabad to
Joonaghur, 104; from Gogo to Ba-
leecheree, 105; from Deesa to Hydra-
bad, 106; from Hydrabad to Kurra-
chee, 105; general observations on
the whole, 109.
Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , Notes on the
Earthquake of the 29th April 1864,
in the North-Eastern Part of the'
by D. J. Kennelly, Esq., F.R.A.S.'
F.R.G.S., xvii. 288-298.
Bombay, population of, and Salsette, in
1826-7, by Major T. B. Jervis, F.R S.,
iii. 72, 73.
Bombay, Remarks on some of the
Oldest Races now Settled in, and
Reasons for Supposing that the
Present Island consisted, in the
14th Century, of Two Distinct
Islands, by R. X. Murphy, Esq., i.
128 ; present population of Bombay
and Salsette composed of a great
variety of castes and races, 128; the
oldest races there chiefly Hindus who
have become Christians, 128, 129;
their origin easily traced from their
language, a dialect of the Mahratta,
128, 129; they are divided into five
sections—Colees, (Kolies,) or fisher
men, Bhongules, or tody-drawers,
Pulsheas, or doctors, Pathamy Pur-
voes, and Panchkulseas, or carpen
ters—and appear to have been settled
on the island at the beginning of the
14th century, 129 ; arguments in sup
port of this theory, 129, 130 ; various
peculiarities in their language, names,
occupations, and privileges, which dis
tinguish them from the other races,
130, 131; abstract of their history,
and of the conquest of the island,
from various MSS. still in existence,
131—137; conclusions drawn from
these, 137, 138; reasons for supposing
that the present island consisted for
merly of two distinct islands, 138,
139; etymology of the name, 130, n.
Bombay, Report on the Landed Ten
ures of, by F. Warden, B.C.S., iii.
1 ; Bombay ceded to the English
Crown by the Portuguese, 3; the
Crown transfers it to the East India
Company, 4, 5; the revenue, 6, 7;
law, land revenue, and tenures, 8-12;
naval and military expenditure, in
creased taxation, 13-17; description
of the island, 18-22; inquiries and
regulations regarding the land, 23-27;
plan for rebuilding the town, 28-33;
legal nature of the land allotment,
33-40; system of taxation adopted
from the cession of the island, 40-65.
Bombay School of Industry, account of
the, x. 238.
Bombay, a steamer, xv. 22.
Bombay, table of semi-diurnal arcs for
every degree of declination N. or S.,
for the lat. of, xvii. 25.
Bombay, table of lunar semi-diurnal
arcs, xvii. 30.
Bombay, tidal observations at, vi. 247.
Bombay, Tidal Observations for 1861,
Remarks on the, by J. Burgess,
F.E.I.S., xvii. 1-8.
Bombay, the word, supposed to be de