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fresh, and indeed the water reports which have reached me this 

 day show that some of them are already so. I fear therefore that 

 there are grounds for apprehending that many of the new embank- 

 ments will have given way. 



" I have, however, put myself immediately in communication 

 with Captain Oakes, and immediately the water subsides, every en- 

 deavour will be made jointly with the Officers of the Department 

 Public Works to repair the damages which have been sustained, 

 and to restore the embankments before the regular freshes make 

 their appearance." 



PROCEEDINGS. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society, and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Soeiety, held 

 at the Club House, on Thursday the 14th October 1858, at half- 

 past 6 o'clock, p. M. 



PRESENT. 



The Hon'ble Walter Elliot, Esq., Chairman. 

 R. Burgass, Esq. G. F. Fullerton, Esq. 



M. Norman, Esq. W. Huddleston, Esq., Secy. 



W. C. Maclean, Esq., m. d. 



The Secretary laid before the meeting the usual monthly state- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to the 14th Instant. 



Resolved, that the foregoing statement is satisfactory andbepassed. 



Resolved, that a memorandum of deficient numbers of the Li- 

 brary set of the Society's Journal be circulated to Members, with 

 a request that they will, if possible, aid to complete it. 



Resolved, that Dr. Kellie be requested to make efforts to find 

 or replace the missing volume of the Journal as it breaks the Li- 

 brary set. 



A prospectus for the Publication of " Monographic des Picides" 

 having been laid before the Committee, they are of opinion that it 

 is not desirable to subscribe to the work, the cost of which appears 

 to be francs 450. 



