INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
The Committee of the Madras Literary Society having resolved 
on commencing the re-publication of the " Madras Journal of Lite- 
rature and Science," desire briefly to point out what have been the 
general scope and objects of this work. 
The Journal had up to the cessation of its publication served as 
a repertory for all matters of local interest, whether literary or sci- 
entific, connected with the .History, Geography, Antiquities, Lite- 
rature, Ethnology, Natural History, and Meteorology of Southern 
India. A reference to the numbers of this Journal will show how 
considerable an amount of useful and valuable information has thus 
been collected and preserved. 
Many observations must frequently occur to persons attached to 
Science, worthy of notice and interesting to the public, which are 
often withheld from an undue diffidence as to their being worthy of 
formal communication to the Literary Society. 
Such Notices will be received with pleasure, and after submis- 
sion to the Committee of Papers may find an appropriate record in 
the Society's Journal. 
Narratives of Journeys undertaken with Scientific views or even 
visits to new or little known places will be received with interest 
and any observation as to the Local Fauna or Flora of particular 
Districts will be highly valued. 
The want of some such means of imparting to the public valu- 
able discoveries in all such subjects has been very generally felt ; 
but a work of this description must depend mainly on public sup- 
port and this it is not unreasonable to expect that the pen as well 
as the purse of the Community at large will furnish. 
In inviting, therefore, Contributions as well as Subscriptions to 
the Journal on its re-publication the Committee trust that their ap- 
peal will be readily responded to. 
