On Friday, the 27th May, a Deputation of the Court of Directors proceeded to the East-India College for the purpose of receiving the Report of the result of the Examination of the Students at the close of the term.

The Deputation, upon their arrival at the College, were received by the Principal and the Professors, and the Oriental Visitor.

Soon afterwards, they proceeded to the Hall, the Students being previously assembled, when the following proceedings took place :

A list of the Students who had obtained prizes, and other honourable distinctions, was read; also, a list of the best Persian and Deva-Nagari writers.

Mr. John Russel Colvin delivered an

English essay, "The Connexion between

Intellectual and Moral Excellence."

The Students read and translated in the several Oriental languages.

Prizes were then delivered by the Chairman according to the following report :

Report of Medals, Prizes of Books, and other honourable Distinctions obtained at the Public Examination, May 1825. List of Students who obtained Medals, Prizes of Books, and other honourable Distinctions, at the Public Examination, May 1825.

Students in their Fourth Term.

J. R. Colvin, medal in classics, medal in mathematics, prize in Hindustani, prize for an English essay, and with great credit in other departments.

J. P. Gubbins, medal in Persian, prize in Arabic, prize in Bengali and in Bengali writing, and highly distinguished in other departments.

R. T. Porter, medal in law, and highly distinguished in other departments.

F. Anderson, medal in Sanscrit, and highly distinguished in other departments. F. Hall, medal in political economy, and highly distinguished in other depart

ments.

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A. E. Hamilton, prize of books equal to a medal, by vote of College Council, being highly distinguished in all the departments.

A. Mallet, prize in drawing.

Students in their Third Term.

C. E. Trevelyan, prize in classics, prize in political economy, prize in Sanscrit, and with great credit in other departments.

W. U. Arbuthnot, prize in law, prize in Bengali, and with great credit in other departments.

P.. Cathcart, prize in Hindustani, and highly distinguished in other departments. C. C. Jackson, prize in mathematics, and highly distinguished in other depart

ments.

C. G. Mansel, prize in Persian, prize in Arabic, and highly distinguished in other departments.

C. E. Macdonald, prize in Deva-Nagari writing, and with great credit in other departments.

Students in their Second Term.

C. M. Caldecott, prize in Bengali, prize in Hindustani, and highly distinguished in other departments.

F. Cardew, prize in mathematics, prize in history, and highly distinguished in other departments.

E. C. Wilmot, prize in law, prize in Persian, and highly distinguished in other departinents.

A. W. Ravenscroft, prize in classics, and highly distinguished in other depart

It was then announced to the Students that the certificates of the College Council were granted, not only with reference to industry and proficiency, but also to con'duct; and that this latter consideration had always a decided effect in determining the order of rank.

It was also announced that such rank would only take effect in the event of the Students proceeding to India within six months after they are so ranked, or by any one of the regular ships that may

which the Student is destined, between the expiration of the said six months and the 1st day of March then next ensuing; and that should any one delay so to proceed, he would only take rank among the Stu dents classed at the Examination previous to his departure for India, and would be placed at the end of that class in which rank was originally assigned to him.

Notice was then given that the next Term would commence on Wednesday the 27th July, and that the Students would be required to return to the College within the first four days of it, unless a suitable reason, satisfactory to the College Council, could be assigned for the delay; otherwise, the Term would be forfeited.

The Chairman then addressed the Students, expressing, in the name of the Court of Directors, his high approbation of the talent which had been that day exhibited, as well as of the favourable state of the institution in general: and the business of the day concluded.

Wednesday the 13th, and Wednesday the 20th instant, are the days appointed for receiving Petitions, at the East-India House, from Candidates for the College for the Term, which will commence on the 27th instant.

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF CALCUTTA.

Meeting of January 5.-At the present meeting, Dr. Abel submitted some observations, highly interesting to naturalists, on the subject of the fragments of the ourang outang. It appears that an officer of the ship Mary Anne Sophia was on shore at a place called Ramboom, near Touromon, on the west coast of Sumatra, where he discovered the animal in a tree. He assembled his people, and followed him to a tree in a cultivated spot, on which he took refuge. His walk was erect and waddling, but not quick, and he was obliged occasionally to accelerate his motion with his hands; but with the bough of a tree he impelled himself forward with greater rapidity. When he reached the trees his strength was shewn in a high degree; for with one spring he gained a very lofty bough, and bounded from it with the ease of smaller animals of his kind. Had the circumjacent land been covered with wood, he would certainly bave escaped from his pursuers; his mode of travelling by bough or tree being described as rapid as the progress of a very fleet horse; but at Ramboom there are but few trees left in the midst of culti vated fields, and amongst these alone he jumped about to avoid being taken. He was first shot on a tree, and after having received five balls, his exertion was relaxed, owing, no doubt, to loss of blood; and the ammunition being about this time expended, they were obliged to have recourse to other measures for his destruction. One of the first balls probably penetrated his lungs; for, immediately after the infliction of the wound, he slung himself by his feet from a branch with his head downwards, and allowed the blood to flow from his mouth. On receiving a wound he always put his hand over the injured part, and the human-like agony of his expression had the natural effect of exciting painful feelings among his pursuers. With the assistance of the peasantry, who seemed as amazed at the sight of the animal as the crew of the Mary Anne Sophia, never having seen one before, although living within two days' journey from the vast and impenetrable forests on the island, they cut down the tree on which he was reclining exhausted; but the moment he found it falling, he exerted his remaining strength, and gained another tree, and then a third, until he was finally brought to the ground, and forced to combat his assailants, who now

gathered very thickly round, and discharged spears and other missiles against him. The first spear, made of a very strong supple sort of wood, which would have resisted the strength of the strongest man, was broken by him like a carrot, and had he not been at this time in almost a dying state, it was feared that he would have severed the heads of some of the party with equal ease. He fell, at length, under innumerable stabs inflicted by the peasantry. The animal is supposed to hive travelled some distance from the place where he was killed, as his legs were covered with mud up to the knees. The hands and feet of the animal had great analogy to human hands and feet, only that the thumbs were smaller in proportion, and situated nearer the wrist-joint than the thumbs of human beings generally are. His body was well proportioned; he had a fine broad expanded chest, and a narrow waist; his legs, however, were rather short, and his arms very long, though both possessed such sinew and muscle, as left no doubt of their power and strength. His head was well proportioned with his body; the nose was prominent; the eyes large, and the mouth larger than the mouth in man; his chin was fringed from the extremity of one ear to the other with a shaggy beard, curling luxuriantly on each side, and forming altogether an ornamental, rather than a frightful, appendage to his visage. The hair of his coat was smooth and glossy when he was first killed, and his teeth and whole appearance indicated that he was young, and in the full possession of his physical powers. He was nearly eight feet high. Dr. Abel has, with great care and ability, examined all the fragments of the animal presented to the Society. The. height mentioned is a mere estimate by those who saw it alive, but the measurement of the skin goes far to determine this question: the skin, dried and shrivelled as it is, in a straight line from the top of the shoulder to the point whence the ancle has been removed, measures five feet ten inches; the perpendicular length of the neck, as it is in the preparation, three inches and a half; length of the face, from the forehead to the chin, nine inches; and of the skin now attached to the foot, from the line of its separation from the body to the heel, eight inches-measurements made by Dr. Abel himself: thus we have one foot eight inches and a-half to be added to the five feet ten inches, in order to apL 2 proximate

proximate to his real stature, which would make seven feet six inches and a-half; but allowing the six inches and a-half for the shortening that would result from the folding of the skin over the shoulders, and the height will then be full seven feet. This is the greatest ascertained height of any tail-less monkey on record, as may be gathered from the several notices which Dr. Abel has collected from different writers on man-like apes.

The skin itself was of a dark leaden colour; the hair, a brownish red; shaggy and long over the shoulders and flanks.

It is observed by Dr. Abel, that of the small animals more particularly known in Europe under the designation of ourang outang, one is an inhabitant of Africa, the other of the East. Of both, several living specimens have been seen in Europe; but all were of small stature and very young, never exceeding three feet in height, or as many years of age. These animals were long considered as varieties of the same species, although, in point of fact, they are very distinctly separated by external character and anatomical distinctions; the African animal being always black, with large ears; the eastern specimens as invariably having reddish-brown hair, and very small ears; the former also being unprovided with sacs communicating with the windpipe, whilst they are always found in the latter.

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS.

Meeting of April 5.-Prince Talleyrand was admitted a member of the Society. › M. Castiglioni, of Milan, announced that, with the permission of his government, he accepts with gratitude the title of corresponding associate conferred upon him by the Society.

M. Elout, who is about to proceed to Batavia, intimated his intention of employing himself, in that city, in the search of objects likely to interest the friends of oriental literature.

Two letters, one from Baron Werther, Prussian minister at the court of France; the other from Baron d'Altenstein, minister of public instruction and of ecclesiastical affairs at Berlin, announced that his Majesty, the King of Prussia, has consented to present to the Society the fount of DevaNagari characters at Berlin, as requested. A letter received by the secretary contained the information, that in consequence of the orders given by Baron d'Altenstein, the Sanskrit types might be expected in Paris towards the middle of April.

A complete copy of the Japonese Grammar of P. Rodriguez was presented to the Society, and ordered to be laid upon the table on the day of the general meeting. It was stated that the collection of Fables, by Vartan, would be ready by that time.

A paper on Mercurial Fumigation by Dr. A. Gibson, of the Bombay establishment, was read and discussed by the meeting. This essay contains the result of Dr. G.'s experience in the practice of fumigation, with various preparations of mercury, for the cure of syphilis and rheu◄ matism; in both which diseases the author has found it a safe and efficacious remedy, and superior in many respects to the common modes of administration. The prac tice has long been in use among the natives of India for the cure of similar complaints, but in a manner so injudicious, that violent salivation is generally the result; and the remedy consequently proves too often worse than the disease. The preparation usually employed by the native practitioner is the common cinnabar of the bazar. Before the meeting broke up, some important observations were made by a member, regarding the employment of the new medicine, Quinine, in the fevers of the country. The preparation particularly alluded to was the sulphate of Quinine, a small supply of which had been received a few months before in Calcutta. It is represented to be a most powerful tonic, in the common acceptation of the term, as curing obstinate intermittents, and even remittents, partaking of the type of the former, in an incredibly short space of time. The dose is so small (from three to five grains) that it may be swallowed in the form of a pill, and a few such are found more efficient than ounces of bark in removing the fever, and afterwards guarding the patient against the danger of a relapse.

Meeting of Feb. 5.-An interesting report of the medical practice at Quilon, drawn up by Mr. Staff-Surgeon Macaulay, and transmitted by the Madras Medical Board, was laid before the meeting. This was accompanied by a drawing of a singu lar tumor, and a description of the operation performed by that gentleman for its removal.

A fatal

A fatal case of traumatic tetanus occurring in a private of H. M.'s 13th L.I., at Rangoon, by Dr. Mouat, assistant surgeon of that corpsið að ofan

1) A case of rupture of the pulmonary artery by Mr. J. Adam, assistant surgeon, 47th Madras N.I., Ganjam.

An account of the successful treatment of abdominal spasms, by Mr. Corbyn, of Allahabad,now

A paper, by Major General Hardwicke, on a species of grass said to be of great repute among the natives of Bengal as a powerful tonic. This paper, with an accompanying drawing of the plant, was transmitted from St. Helena by the Major General, and presented through Dr. Mellis. A case of hydrophobia, by Drs. Browne and Adam.

A case of the same disease, by Mr. Cavell. paper on rabies canina, its appearance in dogs, and effects on persons bitten by them, by Dr. Mellis.

In a discussion on the subject of hydrophobia, it was stated, that in one case, a dose of four grains of extract of belladonna was followed by a decidedly good effect. The characteristic symptoms of the disorder, which were manifestly formed at the time the remedy was administered, speedily gave way, and the patient eventually recovered.

SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

At the distribution of the numerous honours and rewards adjudged by this Society on the 30th May, we observed the following:

To Colin Shakspear, Esq., Postmaster General, Calcutta, for a portable ropebridge, the gold Vulcan medal.

To Mr. R. Jones, master of St George's work-house, Little Chelsea, for cloth made of New Zealand flax, the silver Ceres medal and five guineas.

To Messrs. Petchy and Wood, Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, for making and importing five tons of extract of Mimosa bark, for the use of tanners, the gold Ceres medal.

To M. Le Cadre, Trinidad, for his plantations of clove-trees in the colony of Trinidad, fifty guineas.

The thanks of the Society were voted

To Capt. T. M. Bagnold, High row, Knightsbridge, and to his brother, Capt. M. E. Bagnold, of Bombay, for an account of the process employed at Bombay for making twisted gun-barrels and swordblades, in imitation of those made at Da

mascus.

The paper on this subject was ordered to be printed in the next volume of the Society's Transactions.

ANCIENT MIRROR.

There has been lately found, near the

river Maloï Krapkoï, in the country in which it is believed the ancient city of Thana was situated, a bronze mirror bearing a Cufic inscription. It was discovered in a tumulus, upon the breast of a skeleton, with some other articles. A representation and brief description of the mirror and the rest of the articles are given in the European Messenger for 1824, No. 12, a Russian journal published at Moscow.[Journal Asiatique.

CUFIC COINS.

The 10th volume of Memoirs of the Academy of St. Petersburgh, which will soon issue from the press, will contain a small collection of unpublished Cufic coins, most of them highly interesting, found among the ruins of the ancient city of Cherson. These coins compose part of a private cabinet recently formed at Moscow. -[Ibid.

ORIENTAL GEOGRAPHY.

The Bulletin des Sciences Géographiques for Jan. 1825, published at Paris, contains an interesting article on the subject of an Arab geographical work, entitled "Kharidat al Adgiaib; or, the Pearl of Wonders," by Ibn al Vardi, which has lately been translated into Latin by Mr. Hylander, and published by him at Lund in Schonon, in conjunction with his son, who has considerably enriched the edition by a copious appendix of variantes, taken from three Arab manuscripts in the Royal Library of Copenhagen; together with a geographical index, which contains, in addition to the Arab names adopted by Ibn Vardi, those given by the Oriental or Latin authors to the different places mentioned in the work. One of the most remarkable passages in the translation of Mr. Hylan der is, the mention made by Ibn al Vardi of a mountain in the interior of Asia, which is seen to vomit forth smoke during the day-time, and flames by night. Messrs. Hylander state, that Dr. Leyden was busily occupied at Calcutta in preparing an edition of the original text of Ibn al Vardi with an English translation, when his useful labours were cut short by his premature death.

ORIENTAL LITERATURE.

Several copies of a truly splendid work, entitled "The Seven Seas; a Dictionary and Grammar of the Persian Language, by His Majesty the King of Oude," have reached this country. The work was printed at His Majesty's press, in the city of Lucknow, and forms seven volumes folio, fifteen inches in length, and eleven in breadth. The first six volumes contain the Dictionary, and the seventh the Grammar. On every page above the number are the arms of the Sultan-two lions, each hold