1850.] and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



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Read letter from the Secretary to the Agricultural and Horticultural 

 Society of India. 



Metcalfe Hall, Calcutta, SOth January, 1S49. 



Dear Sir,— The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India be- 

 ing desirous of completing for its Library, a set of the Madras Journal 

 of Literature and Science, I am requested to ask the favor of your bring- 

 ing to the notice of the Madras Literary Society this, its application, for 

 vols. 1 to 4 inclusive, and part of vol. 7, (No. 18,) which is missing. 



Should this request be complied with I would ask the favor of your 

 having these numbers made up into a parcel and despatched by Steamer, 

 the freight of which the Society will gladly meet. 



(Signed) James Hume, Horticultural Secretary* 



I. Resolved, — That this application be complied with as far as possi- 

 ble, and that the Secretary to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society 

 of India be informed that no copies of Nos. 3 and 4 of the Journal are 

 at present procurable. 



Read letter from I. Y. Fullerton, Esq. 

 To the Secretary Madras Literary Society. 



My dear Sir, — I have one or two copies on hand of Colonel Fullerton' s 

 view in the Himalaya and Neilgherry Hills — price of a colored copy is 

 Rupees 21, and of a plain copy Rupees 13. I request to know if the 

 Madras Literary Society would like to take a copy. 



\Wi February, 1849. (Signed) I. Y. Fullerton. 



II. Resolved, — That Mr. Fullerton, be informed that, in the present 

 condition of the Funds of the Society, the Committee do not consider it 

 advisable to purchase works exclusively pictorial and ornamental. 



Read letter from B. Cunliffe, Esq. 



G. C. Manufactory, 28th February, 1849. 



Gentlemen,— As I believe that the Literary Society does not possess 

 a copy of the " Gleanings in Science," the parent work, and precursor of 

 the Calcutta Literary Journal, perhaps you may feel disposed to purchase 

 of me a copy, for the price I gave for it, viz., 36 Rupees. It is in three 

 vols, now scarce. 



(Signed) B, Cunliffe. 



The Committee Literary Society. 



III. Resolved, — That Mr. Cunliffe, be informed that the funds of the 

 Society are at present not more than sufficient to meet the demand for 

 new and popular works, periodicals &c, and that, therefore, the Commit- 

 tee do not consider it advisable to purchase so old a publication as the 



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