LONDON:

HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE,

CONTENTS OF NO XI.

ART. I.-Observations with a view to an Inquiry into the Music of

the East. By WILLIAM DaunNEY, ESQ., F.S.A., Scot.

ART. II.-Letters to the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, by

W. MORLEY, Esq., and PROFESSOR DUNCAN FORBES, on the

Discovery of part of the Second Volume of the "Jámi al Tawa-

ríkh," supposed to be lost

ART. III.-Vocabulary of the Maldivian Language, compiled by

LIEUT. W. CHRISTOPHER, I. N. Communicated to the Bombay

Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, by JOHN WILSON, D.D.

ART. IV.-A short Account of the Sherley Family, by MAJOR-

GENERAL BRIGGS, F.R.S. F.G.S.

ART. V.-Extract from the work entitled Fountains of Information

respecting the Classes of Physicians, by Muwaffik-uddín Abú-

'labbás Ahmad Ibn Abú Usaibiâh, by the REV. W. CURETON;

with remarks by PROFESSOR H. H. WILSON

ART. VI.-The Chinese Secret Triad Society of the Tien-ti-huih. By
LIEUTENANT NEWBOLD, A.D.C., and MAJOR-GENERAL WIL-
SON, C.B., Madras Army

ART. VII.-On the White-haired Angora Goat, and on another

species of Goat found in the same Province, resembling the

Thibet Shawl Goat. By LIEUT. ARTHUR CONOLLY, of the

Bengal Cavalry, Cor. M.R.A.S.

ART. VIII.-Copy of an Arabic Inscription in Cufic or Karmatic

Characters, on a tombstone at Malta; with remarks and trans-

lation, by JOHN SHAKESPEAR, ESQ.

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ART. IX.-Observations on the Expediency of opening a Second Port
in China, addressed to the President and Select Committee of
Supracargoes for the management of the Affairs of the
Honourable East India Company in China. By SAMUEL
BALL, ESQ., Inspector of Teas

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