1850.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society, 



403 



From T. Pycroft, Esq., Secy, to the Board of Revenue. 

 To Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary M. L. Society. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Kevenue to acknowledge the re- 

 ceipt of your letter of the 25th instant, and agreeably with your request 



1847. to forward herewith the corres- 

 pondence noted in the margin re- 

 lative to the cultivation of wheat 

 in India. 



2. I am instructed to add, that 

 the Government on the enclosed 

 communications from the Collec- 

 tors being laid before them, de- 

 sired the Board to call for some 

 further information upon the sub- 

 ject from certain Districts. The 

 replies to this reference have not 

 all been furnished, but as soon as 

 the whole have been received they 

 shall be forwarded to the Literary 

 Society. 



From Government, 24th August, 

 „ Ganj am, 11th October, 

 ,, Vizagapatam, 11th October, 

 ,, Rajahnmndry, 10th February 

 „ Masulipatam, 31st August, 

 „ Guntoor, 21st October, 

 „ Nellore, 1 1th November, 

 „ Bellary, 18th August, 

 „ Cuddapah, 23d May, - 

 ,, Kurnool, 22d December, - 

 ,, Chingleput, 24th August, 

 ,, Salem, 10th January, 

 „ North Arcot, 14th March, 

 ,, South Arcot, 20th December, 

 „ Tanjore, 26th August, - 

 „ Trichinopoly, 13th January, 



Madura, 13th November, 

 „ Tinnevelly, 26th October, 

 „ Coimbatore, 6th March, 

 ,, Canara, 21st October, 

 „ Malabar, 22d October, 

 „ Superintendent Cotton Farms i 



Coimbatore, 6th November, 

 „ Secretary to the Agri-Horticul- 

 tural Society, 23d October, 



1848. 

 1847. 



1848. 



1847. 

 1848. 



- 1847. 



1848. 

 1847. 



Eevenue Board Office, 

 Fort St. George y 

 2%th June 1849. 



(Signed) T. 



Pycroft, 



Secretary. 



To Captain J. J. Losh, 



Secretary Madras Literary Society. 



IV, Resolved, — That the correspondence received with this letter be 

 referred to the Committee of Papers, in order that an abstract there- 

 of may be prepared for publication in the next number of the Society's 

 Journal. 



Bead letter from Dr. Balfour, dated 21st June 1349. 

 To the Secretary Madras Literary Society. 



Sir, — I have the honor to forward the copy of a paper on the health 

 of Soldiers, and would feel gratified should the Society consider it 

 worth a place in their Library. 



June list, 1849. Edward Balfour. 



V. Resolved, — That the paper received with this letter be placed in 

 the Society's Library, and that Dr. Balfour be thanked on behalf of the 

 Society for his donation to it. 



The bill of the Superintendent of the Madras Christian Knowledge 



