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'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.' [‎103] (130/372)

The record is made up of 1 volume (339 pages). It was created in 1836-1864. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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GENEKAL INDEX.
103
Meetings— continued.
for tension of vapour, x. 103 ;
letters, donations, 103.
1852, April. —Letters, donations, x.
104.
1852, May. —Letters, donations, x.
105 ; report on the state of
the Society for the past year,
105; papers, 106; letters,
107; office-bearers for the
year, 107.
1852, June. —Description of a sub
marine current-measurer, by
Dr Buist, x. 108; letters,
donations, 110; financial
statement for the year, 111.
1853, May. —Annual report and fin
ancial statement, xi. 1-8.
1854, Aug. —Address by Dr Buist on
the resuscitation of the So
ciety, xii. 1; remarks on the
hydrography and geography
of the Red Sea, 6.
1854, Sept. —Lecture on the principal
depressions on the surface of
the globe, by Dr Buist, xii.
7; continental river basins,
9; Great Salt Lake, 11; Nat
ron and bitter lakes, 13;
Arraland Caspian, 15; Dead
Sea, 17; depths of the ocean,
19.
1854, Oct. —Lecture on Captain Sel
by’s survey off the shores of
Bombay, by Dr Buist, xii.
19-22; lecture on the instru
ments mostly employed in
geographical research, 22-24.
1854, Nov. —Lecture on the cyclone
at Bombay on the 2d Nov.
1854, by Dr Buist, xii. 25-
59.
1854, Dec. —Election of members, xii.
59.
1855, May. —Report of the operations
for the year, xii. 59; chart-
ography, 68; geographical
research for the past year,
74; surveys in India, 85-93.
1855, Aug. —Experiments on subsur
face evaporation, xiv. 1; on
the movement of the clouds
in the upper and lower re
gions of the air, 2.
1855, Sept. —Letters, donations, xiv.
4; on certain peculiarities
of water plants in our tanks,
5.
Meetings— continued.
1855, Oct. —On the physical geography
of India, xiv. 6.
1856, April. —On skeleton charts, xiv.
22; the Beaufort Testimoni
al, 22.
1856, Aug .—Donations, letters, xiv.
24; value of barometric
measurements, 25, et seq.
1856, Oct. —Discussion on the axial
rotation of the moon, xiv.
27, et seq.
1856, Dec. —Correspondence in refer
ence to Captain Burton’s ex
pedition into Eastern Africa,
xiv. 31-39; on the earthquake
of the 12th of October 1856,
in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. , 39.
1857, Feb. —On Foucault’s experiment
on the rotation of the earth,
xiv. 42.
1857, April. —Letters, donations, xiv.
44; on the ferns in the
Western Ghauts, India, by
Mr Leggatt, 45, et seq.
1857, May. —Financial statement, xiv.
49; office-bearers for the
year, 50; letters, donations,
50.
1857, July. —Letters, donations, xiv.
51.
1857, Sept .—Letters, donations, xiv.
52.
1857, Oct. —Remarks on geological
and geographical phenomena,
xiv. 54.
1857, Nov. —Remarks on geographical
phenomena, xiv. 57; on
oceanic undercurrents, 61.
1857, Dec, —Letters from Captain
Burton describing his jour
ney into Eastern Africa, xiv.
63-68; remarks on the geo
graphy of the Red Sea, 68.
1858, May. —Financial statement for
the year, xiv. 73.
1858, Oct. —Donations, xv. 11; Dr
Buist gives notice of his
resignation of the office of
secretary, 12.
1858, Nov. —Letters, donations, 'xv.
12; extracts read from a
letter from Lieutenant Con
stable, on the physical geo
graphy of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
xv. 13.
1859, Jan. —Correspondence with Dr
Buist in reference to his re-

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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.

Publication details: Printed for the Society by Ballantyne and Co., Paul's Work, Edinburgh, 1866.

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