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Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. 37 ^ 



Read letter from Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and Co., dated 19th February 

 1S49, advising the despatch of periodicals and books per Steamer. 



III. JResohed, — That the receipt of Messrs. Allen and Co.'s letter be 

 acknowledged, and that they be requested to send out the following 

 books for the use of the Society : 



Owen Tudor, an Historical Romance, 3 vols, A Letter to the Right 

 Honorable Sir J. Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control, on the 

 Baggage of the Indian Army, by Sir C. J. Napier, G. C. B. Cromwell 

 Doolan, or Life in the Army, 2 vols. The Life of Robespirre, by G. H. 

 Lewes. Lofoden, or the Exiles of Norway, by E. W. Landor, Esq., 2 

 vols. Recollections of an Old Soldier, being Memoirs of the late Col. T. 

 S. Tidy, C. B., by his daughter Mrs. Ward. The Fountain of Anethusa, 

 by R. E. Landor, M. A. The Old Judge; or Life in a Colony, 2 vols. 

 Stokers and Pokers; or the London and N. W. Railway. Lucelle Bel- 

 mont, 3 vols. Poems by Eliza Cook, 3 vols. Peregrine Scramble, by | 

 Captain Sir H. V. Huntley, R. N., 2 vols. Eccentric and Remarkable I 

 Characters, by F. W. Fairholt, Esq. F. S. A. Four Months amongst the 

 Gold Finders in California, by Dr. Brooks. The Western World or Tra- | 

 vels in the United States in 1846-47, by A. Mackay, Esq. J 



(Signed) J. J. Losh, Secretary M. L. S. fyc. 



jit an Annual General Meeting of the Madras Literary Society 

 and Auxiliary of the Boy at Asiatic Society, held in the Society's 

 Rooms at the College, on SoJurday the 28th April, 1849, at 11 



O'clock A. M. 



Present. — The Hon. H. Dickinson, Esq., Vice President, in the 

 Chair; A. J. Arbuthnot, Esq.; Walter Elliot, Esq.; G. Y. Ful- 

 lerton, Esq. ; Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart. ; J. Ouchterlony, Esq. ; 

 Major T. T. Pears, 0. B. ; E. B. Powell, Esq. ; G. N. Taylor, Esq^ 

 and Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



The Secretary submitted to the Meeting Messrs. Binny and Compa- 

 ny's account current with the Society for 1848, showing a balance in> 

 favor of the latter on the 1st January 1849, of Rupees 207, and also, a 

 general account of the receipts and disbursements of the Society in 1848,. 

 and its credits and liabilities on the 1st January, 1S49, showing a balance 

 against it on that date of Rupees 450-3-4; and explained that the defi- 

 ciency has arisen partly from the disbursements for printing Nos. 32 and 

 33 of the Society's Journal, a large portion of the subscriptions to which 

 remains still uncollected, and partly from expenses incurred in replacing 

 books included in the Catalogue of the Library, but which had been, at 

 different times, lost by Subscribers, or, destroyed by accident. • „- 



