1840.] 



Madras L'Uerary Society, ^c. 



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Thursday Evenings 2d ^prilXMO. — Dr. Wylie, in the Chair. 



The following books, presented to the Society, were laid on the 

 table :-— 



Result of Observations at the Madras Observatory for 1838 and 1839. 

 ^By the Madras Government. 



Narrative of the Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the Nervous 

 System — By Alexander Shaw, Esq. — Presented, on the part of the 

 author, by James Shaw, Esq. 



The following communication to the Society was presented : — 

 Captain J. Campbell on a supposed new mineral, a Tilanate of 

 Magnesia. 



Thursday Evening, 7th May 1840.— A. D. Campbell, Esq. President 

 of the Committee of Papers, in the Chair. 



The following work, presented to the Society, was laid on the table, 

 and thanks voted for the same : — 



Mr. Piddington's Pamphlet on the Law of storms as applying to the 

 tempests of the Indian and Chinese seas. — By the Government of India. 



The following communications to the Society were presented: — 

 Continuation of the Catalogue of the Birds of Southern India, by 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. — Tribe Scansores. 



Account of a carboniferous stratum at Baypoor, near Calicut, Ma- 

 labar coast. By Lieut. Newbold (Read to the meeting). 



Desiderata in Indian Geology. By the same. 



Specimens of the silicified wood from Turivacary, with lateritic rock, 

 which appears to be the matrix in which the fossil is found, were pre- 

 sented in the name of C. T. Kate Esq. of the Civil Service. 



Specimens from the same locality were also presented, received 

 from Lieut. Newbold ; al8o specimens of the shell limestone deposit 

 near Pondicherry, presented by the same gentleman. 



