Committee Meeting, April 4th, 1853. Ivii. 



the Athenseum with tliose of the Asiatic Society, and 

 completing the amount by a public subscription. The advan- 

 tages of the project would be highly beneficial to both So- 

 cieties, and the public would benefit largely likewise ; it 

 being also in contemplation to erect a Chemical laboratory, to 

 be attached to the building, the utility of which would soon 

 be made manifest either in furnishing a means for carefully 

 analysing such valuable products as those contributed by Mr. 

 Ondaatje to the Society, or as forming a basis for establishing 

 a School of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy for general 

 instruction. In conclusion, he thought the better plan of 

 bringing the subject before the Society would be, by reading 

 a paper on it at some Evening meeting. 



The business of the Meeting having ended, a vote of thanks 

 was given to the Chairman, and the Meeting separated, 



J. Lamprey, M.B. 



Hony, Secy, 



COMMITTEE MEETING, HELD 4TH APRIL, 1853. 



Present: — The Hon'ble Justice Starke, in the Chair ; Dr e 

 Misso, Dr. Lamprey. 



The first subject taken into consideration was the propriety 

 of purchasing a Waterlow's Lithographic Press, now in the 

 possession of Messrs. Wilson Ritchie and Co., and offered for 

 sale at its original cost, £14. 16s., to be used in Lithographing 

 the numerous Rock inscriptions and drawings which have 

 accumulated among the Society's papers ; also for describing 

 the Inscriptions on a collection of interesting Coins in the So- 

 ciety's Museum, and for illustrating the J ournal generally, 

 for which it appears to be admirably adapted. 



The Committee having duly considered the subject, deemed 

 it desirable, on account of the great expense attending the 

 printing of illustrations in England, and the want of such a 



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