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:''Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'' was first published 1907 and is a very valuable source of information. Volumes are available at the [[British Library]]. There are published indexes, each of one volume, as follows: Volumes 1 (July 1907)-8 (June 1914); Volumes 9 (1914)-18 (1919); Volumes 1 (1907)-85 (1966); Volumes 1 (1907)-104 (1985). In addition, the British Library has an index for Volumes 19-29.
:Note that a different Journal, with a somewhat similar name, is the ''Calcutta Historical Journal'', published by the University of Calcutta, first published July 1976, available at the [[British Library]]
:*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cmadge/Baptisms%20in%20Calcutta%201767-1777.pdf Baptisms 1767 -1777] and [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cmadge/Baptisms%20in%20Calcutta%201778-1782.pdf Baptisms 1778-1782] Transcriptions from Registers of St John's, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared in ''Bengal Past and Present'' <ref>Available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 25, Parts I and II (Series nos 49-50) January-June 1923'', pages 130-155 and ''Volume 26, part 2, 1923'', pages 142-168, DLI computer pages 45-71</ref> – this link is to website of Madge Family of Bengal. The first page of the second pdf lists articles in other volumes of BP&P containing transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials to 1800. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes (13 and 16 pages respectively)
*John Williamson Palmer was an American [[Doctor|doctor]] and author who wrote c 1858 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta<ref> Reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref>. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58937~!41&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Photograph of Man in Palki (Palanquin) in Calcutta] from the Smithsonian Institution. Click image to enlarge.
