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in the belief that you may be disposed to exchange for them the Trans- 

 actions of yonr Institution. 



This step would have been taken at an earlier date had I not been 

 under an impression that your Society had ceased to exist some time 

 since — as it is I trust that the two Societies may, though late, be 

 placed in correspondence which shall lead to their mutual advantage. 



(Signed) John Capper, Hon, Secretary* 



III. jResoloedf — That the receipt of this letter, and of numbers 1 to 4 

 of the Proceedings of the Ceylon Asiatic Society be acknowledged and 

 that Mr. Capper be informed, in reply to his communication, that the 

 Committee willingly consent to the proposed exchange of the publica- 

 tions of the two Societies. 



Read note from Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart., May 2d. 

 My Dear Captain Losh, 



In looking over some lists of new publications, the Books mentioned 

 in the accompanying notice seemed to me likely to be approved of by 

 the Subscribers to our Society. Perhaps you will not object to show 

 it to the Committee at your next Meeting. 



(Signed) Henry C. Montgomery. 



IV. Resolvedi— That all the books mentioned in the list received 

 with this note that have not been already received or written for be 

 ordered for the Society. 



Eead letter from Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., dated 19th March, 

 1850, advising the despatch' of periodicals and books per Steamer. 



V. Resolved,— 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 Soeiety : — 



Hogarth's History of Music. 



Records of the Creation, by the Bishop of Chester. 



Sketches and Notes of a Cruise on Scottish Waters — Murray. 



The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, &c. &c, by the Rev. W. Conybeare— 



Longman and Co. 

 Arctic Expeditions — a Lecture, by C. R. Wild — Murray. 

 War in Hungary, by General Klapla. 

 Bombay Cotton and Indian Railways, by Colonel Grant. 

 Railway Economy, hy Dr. Lardner. 

 Dr. Whewell on Cambridge Studies — in parts. 

 Social Condition and Education of the People, &c, by J. Kay. 

 An Autumn in Italy, by the Marquis of Ormonde, 1 vol. royal octavo. 

 Lives of the Prime Ministers of England, 3 vols. 8vo. 



Anecdotes of London and its Celebrities, by J. H. Jesse, 2 vols- 8vo. witfe 



illustrations. 

 Representative Men. 



