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Proceedings. 



[No. 1 I, NEW SERIES. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society held at the 

 Club House on Thursday the 13th September 1860, at half past 6 

 o'Cloch P. M. 



PRESENT 



The Hon. E. Maltby, Chairman, i A. Hall, Esq. 



H. F. Cleghorn, Esq. m. d. J. T. Wheeler, Esq. 



H. B. Montgomery, Esq. m. d. W. Hudleston, Esq. Secretary 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to the 13th September 

 1860. 



Here enter Statement. 



Resolved that the above Statement is satisfactory and be passed. 



Read extract from Proceedings of Government in the Revenue 

 Department containing letter from Dr. Cleghorn on the Tea plan- 

 tations in different parts of the Presidency. 



Ordered to be transferred to the Sab Committee on papers. 



Read letter from M. Robert de Schlagintweit forwarding Pros- 

 pectus of a work on India and High Asia. 



Resolved that one copy of the work in question be subscribed 

 for the Society. 



Read letter from Monsieur Haidinger acknowledging receipt of 

 certain numbers of the Society's Journal. 

 Ordered to be recorded. 



Read letter from the Secret -ry to the Royal Society of Anti- 

 quarians of the North acknowledging a number of the Socie'y's 

 Journal; and forwarding " The Northmen in Iceland, &c. and 

 some packets to be forwarded to their respective addresses. 



To be acknowledged with thanks and the packets distributed. 



Read letter from the Secretary to the Royal Society Edinburgh 

 acknowledging receipt of No. 6 of the Journal. 

 Ordered to be recorded. 



The Secretary lays before the Meeting copy of Meteorological 

 Observations at Bangalore for 1859, received from J. Puckle, 

 Esq., Mysore Commission. 



