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propriety of transferring the Land Customs to the College and allowing 

 the use of the Pantheon to the various Institutions which it is now pro- 

 posed to unite in one place. 



The Court of Directors have sanctioned the formation of a Museum of 

 Economic Geology which would naturally be placed in the same building, 

 especially convenient as this would be to the Students of the University 

 and to the great body of East Indians in Vepery and Pursewaulk. 



The College will not answer these purposes nor is its situation good, 

 for a public institution, but it is supposed that it would be perfectly suit- 

 able for the Land Customs, the Pantheon would answer all the purposes 

 here specified, and as it once was the property of the Public it is not im- 

 possible that Government may be disposed to germit the use of it to the 

 various bodies it is now proposed to unite. 



The Literary Society would find more ample room and more central 

 situation, the Agricultural Society would obtain 13 acres of better land 

 than the seven acres they would resign, the Polytechnic Institution would 

 apply the small sum it possesses to improve the building, the Museum 

 of Economic Geology would be at once located in a manner most advan- 

 tageous to the University Students, and the want of a Town Hall would 

 be at once supplied. 



The Secretaries are requested to furnish the answers as soon as possible 

 addressed to Major Anstruther— Vepery. 



IV. Resolved, — That the Sub-Committee of the Polytechnic Society 

 be informed that the Committee concur with them in opinion that the 

 Literary Society's Library would be of more use to the public if deposit- 

 ed in a more centrical location than its present one in the College, and 

 that, therefore, should the Polytechnic Society succeed in obtaining from 

 Government a grant of the building on the Pantheon Road now occupied 

 as the Land Custom House they will willingly recommend to the Sub- 

 scribers that the Library shall be removed thither, and to Government 

 that the Museum shall be deposited in the same place, provided sufficient 

 accommodation for them can be furnished. 



Read letter from Dr. Roer, dated Calcutta, 24th April 1849, 



Calcutta, Asiatic Society, April 2Uh t 1849, 

 My dear Sir,— -I am requested by Mr. Koenig, Bookseller in Bonn, 

 who has published a number of valuable Oriental works, to ask of you 

 whether the Literary Society in Madras are inclined to enter with him 

 into communication for the purpose of exchange or purchase of Oriental 

 books, I have the pleasure to enclose a list of Sanscrit works, published 

 by him. 



Should your Society accept of Mr, Koenig's offer, may I trouble you 

 for sending me a list of Oriental works printed in the Madras Presidency, 



