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VIII. — At a General Meeting of the Madras Literary Society 

 and Avxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held at the College 

 on Thursday the 30th January 1834. 



Present. 



The Honorable Sir R. Palmer, President in the Chair. 

 The Hon. W. Oliver, Esq. Lieut. Col. Napier, 

 Revd. Mr. Spring, Dr. Benza, 



Captain Rowlandson. Major Hodge8, 



M. R. McDoNELL, Esq. J. A. R. Stevenson, Esq. and 

 W. Lavie, Esq. J. C. Morris, Esq, Secretary. 



R. Cole, Esq. 



> The Meeting having been opened by the Honorable the President, 

 the Secretary laid before them a statement of the Funds of the So- 

 ciety in both its branches. 



The meeting then proceeded to elect new members for the Com- 

 mittee of Management, and for the Committee of Papers, of the 

 Asiatic Department for the ensuing year. 



On the proposition of the Honorable the President, seconded by 

 the Honorable Mr. Oliver, the following gentlemen, were unanimous- 

 ly elected members for the Committee of Management. 



Lieut. Col. Garrard, 



J. Annesley, Esq. 



Revd. Mr. Spring, 



Proposed by the Honorable the President, and seconded by Lieut. 

 Col. Napier, that the following gentlemen be requested to become 

 members of the Committee of Papers. 



Dr. Benza, 



J. G. Malcolmson, Esq. 

 H. S. Fleming, Esq. M. D. 

 R. Cole, Esq. 



On the proposition of the Secretary, the thanks of the meeting 

 were unanimously voted to Dr. Benza, and Lieut. Col. Cullen, for 

 their valuable services in classing, arranging, and naming the large 

 collection of mineral and geological specimens, in the Society's 

 museum. 



The following donations having been made to the Society, since 

 the last annual general meeting, the thanks of the Society were un- 

 animously voted to the donors. 



Notitia Lingua Simcse,, Lieut, Newbold, 



