1840. 



Proceedings of Societies : 



387 



XV, — Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of 

 the Royal Ai,talic Society. 



T/nirsday Evening, llth June 1840. — Colonel W. Montetth, k. l. s. 



in the Chair. 



The following ^orks, presented to the Societj^ were laid on the table^ 

 and thanks voted to the donors: — 



Choix De Contes et Nouvelles traduits da Chinois par Theodore 

 Pavie — By the Translator. 



Calcutta Journal of Natural History, No. 1 — By the Editor, 



The following communication to the Society, was laid before the 

 meeting 



Continuation of the Catalogue of the birds of Southern India. — By 

 T, C. Jerdon, E^q. — Tribes Teiiuirostres and Fissirostres. 



(Published in our present number.) 



Thursday Evening, 2d July 1840. — A. D. Campbell, Esq. President of 

 the Committee of Papers^ in the Chair. 



The following works, presented to the Society, were laid on the table, 

 and thanks voted to the donors : — 



A Gwide to Chemical Testing and Analysis.— By Lieut. Brad- 



DOCK. 



Transactions of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London, vol, 

 Ij pan 4.— By the Medico-Botanical Society. 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 9, part 3, 

 — By the Royal Geographical Society. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 96, December 1839.— 

 By the Asiatic Society. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to the Geological Society of Lon- 

 don, dated 7th November 1"^39 — expressing the Society's thanks for the 

 donation of the Madras Society's Journal. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to the London Linnean Society, 

 dated 5th November 183-) — returning the Society's thanks for Nos. 13 

 to 22, both inclusive of the Society's Journal, 



