1836.] Proceedings of the Madras Lit. Society, fyc. 146 



A common Malay kris. Lieut. Newbold, 



A common Malay fishing line Do. 



A bow obtained from a native of the Celebes. . Do. 



A bundle of arrows from do. do Do. 



A Malay sling made of human hair Do„ 



Specimen of tin of Salangore Do, 



Specimen of stream ore . . . . 0 Wo, 



A Chinese Abacus, or calculating board with 



apparatus for writing . . . . . ............ „ Do, 



A Chinese opium pipe ...................... Do* 



A packet of upas poison 0 Pbh 



A small Cobra di Capello, about 11 feet long s 

 in the act of swallowing a smaller snake 

 of another species, of which it has effect- 

 ed the deglutition of about one third. Revd. Mr. Spring, in 



the name of Captain 

 Bernard. 



The following gentlemen have been elected members since the last 

 general meeting : — 



H, Morris, Esq. 

 A. H, Harris, Esq. 



C. R. Baynes, Esq. 

 T. Jarrett, Esq. 

 N. B. Ac worth, Esq. 



The following vacancies have occurred by death or retirement since 

 the last general meeting. 



J.G . Malcolmson, Esq. gone home. I Captain Lane, gone home. 



Ven. Arch. T. Robinson, a.m. do. 

 W. H. Richards, Esq. do. 

 Captain Boileau, do. 

 Colonel Pearse, do. 



W. E. Underwood, Esq. Retired. 

 T. H. Davidson, Esq. do. 

 Captain Alexander do. 



C. A. Kerr, Esq. Dead. 



Resolved, — that an early meeting of the Committee of Management 

 be called, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of 

 effecting an improvement in the selection of books from England, and 

 the expediency of disposing of any useless works which may now form 

 part of the Library. 



The meeting proceed to elect three members for the Committee of 

 Management for the ensuing year, in succession to Lieutenant Colonel 

 Cullen, A. Robertson, Esq. and Captain Rowlandson — when the Vene- 

 rable Archdeacon H. Harper, a. m. and James Minchin, Esq. were duly- 

 elected and Captain Rowlandson re-elected. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the Honourable the Presi 

 dent s for his able conduct in the chair* 



