JAN.— MAR. 1857.] 
Proceedings. 
to become a Member of the Managing Committee, to complete the 
number as laid down in Rule VI. of the Society's Regulations. 
The following Gentlemen were elected as the Managing Com- 
mittee for the current year. 
Managing Committee. 
Major W. J. Wilson, i Mr. W. U. Arbuthnot, 
Mr. T. Pycroft, | Major E. Lawford, 
Colonel F. A. Reid, c. b. Mr. H. F. C. Cleghorn, m, d. 
Lieut. Col. T. T. Pears, c. b. Mr. A. J. Arbuthnot, 
Lieut. Col. F. C. Cotton, ; Mr. R. Burgass, 
Mr. G. H. Ellis, | Mr. J. W. Breeks, Secretary, 
The thanks of the Meeting were voted to the Chairman, and the 
Meeting closed. 
The Managing Committee of the Madras Litekary Society and 
Auxiliartj of the Royal Asiatic Society^ Thursday Evening^ March 
12,1857. 
On the motion of Mr. W. Arbuthnot, seconded by Colonel Cot- 
ton, the Hon'ble W. Elliot, was elected Chairman of the Commit- 
tee for the current year. 
The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 
ment of the Society's Funds, and brought to the notice of the 
Committee the urgent necessity which existed for a complete Ca- 
talogue of the Society's Books by embodying the Supplemental 
Catalogues for 1852-53 and 55 with the old Catalogue, and clas- 
sifying each work under its appropriate head. 
Resolved that the state of the Society's Funds is satisfactory, 
and that a new Catalogue of the Society's books be printed as 
soon as possible, containing every work received into the Library 
up to January 1857. 
Extracts of a letter from Mr. Thwaites, Superintendent of the 
Royal Botanic Garden of Paradenia in Ceylon to Dr. Cleghorn 
^-ere read, in yrhieh he expressed hi^i leadinees to permit the descrip- 
