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INDEX OF CONTENTS. Short sketch of the solar system, illustrated with telescopic views of the principal Planets, with a notice of Neptune and the Asteroids lately discovered, pp. 1–12. PREST.xv ARY ORsERvAT1oNs–viz. On the origin, &c. of the weekly reckoning of time—the sub-division of the day into watches, hours, &c., according to the English and Hindu methods, with tables for their equation—the commencement of the English, Hindu and Musalmán day, respectively-solar calendar and lunar reckoning, lunar days, &c.—English, Bengāli and Musalmán months, with their equation—the various kind of years commonly known in this country, i. e. the English or Christian Era, the Shaka, the Bengálí, the Hijrá or Musalmán year, the. Magi or Burmese ditto, the Viláyatf or Uriya ditto, the Fasli or Hindustani ditto, the solar and lunar year of the Kalijug, the Sambat, &c.—the phases of the Moon, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, with lithographic illustrations, Occultations of the planets, &c. &c. pp. 13 —30. - ALMANAc for 1851.-Commencement of the above named years, respectively, as they occur in 1851. The four Yugs of the Hindu Shāstras, and Bible account of the creation, duration, &c., of the Earth compared. Explanation of the method followed in the Christian Almanac. Notice of Eclipses in 1851,—pp. 31–37. THE CALEN DAR has been arranged in the present Almanac after the English fashion, each month occupying only two pages. It shows the day of the week, of the year, and of the English month, with the corresponding Bengali and Musalmán date—the rising and setting of the sun–the rising, southing, and setting and the phases of the moon, all according to English reckoning,<-with notices of the holidays and some other particulars as they occur in each month.