OCT. — M4R. 1859-60.] Proceedings. 363 



of a paper named " Pointed and unpointed Romanic Alphabets 

 compared." 



Ordered to be recorded. 



Read letter from Rev. T. Foulkes, forwarding a paper* on the 

 power of the Tamil Consonant p. 



Ordered to be referred to the Sub-Committee of Papers. 



Read letter from G. L. Forbes, Esq., Deputy Secretary to Go- 

 vernment, forwarding copy of the Lecture on the ^Geology of the 

 Province of Auckland, New Zealand. 



Ordered to be referred to the Sub-Committee of Papers. 



Read Extract from Proceedings of the Madras Government, 

 dated 27th September, 1859, No. 1492, containing an order rela- 

 tive to Mr. Acworth's letter regarding a piece of Rock Salt found 

 near Kircumbady. 



Ordered to be referred to the Sub-Committee of Papers. 



Read letter from Captain Puckle, District Executive Engineer, 

 Bangalore, forwarding Meteorological Observations and a table of 

 Experiments on the strength of Timber. 



Ordered to be referred to the Sub-Committee of Papers. 



Read letter from Dr. Rost, Professor of Sanskrit, at St. Augus- 

 tine's College, Canterbury, returning thanks for having been ap- 

 pointed an Honorary Member of the Society. 



Ordered to be recorded. 



Read Circular proposing a continuance of the publication of 

 " Schoolcraft's History of the Condition and Prospects of the In- 

 dian Tribes of the United States." 



Ordered that the copy in the Society's Library be completed. 



* Published in our last No.— Ed. M. L. J. 

 Vol. xx. o. s. Vol. tii. n. s. 



