448 Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. 38, 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 held at the Club House, on Tuesday, the 4th June, 1 850, at 

 half past 6 o'clock, p. m. 



Present. 

 Chairman. 

 E. G. Balfour, Esq. 

 Members. 



Major P. Ansteuther, C. B. Dr. T. Key, 

 W- U. Arbuthnot, Esq. Major T. T. Pears, C. B. 



Dr. J- Kellie, T- Pycroft, Esq. and 



Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



Absent. 



J. Occhterlony, Esq. Lieut. Col. F. A. Eeid, C. B. 



Lieut. Col. T. S. Pratt, C. B. E. H. Williamson, Esq. 



Bead note from Walter Elliot, Esq., received, with a variety of Bocl? 

 Specimens from Arabia, Persia and Mesopotamia, accompanied by a 

 descriptive list, forwarded by Captain Newbold as his first contribution 

 to the Museum of Economic Geology. 



April 24th, 1850. 



My Dear Balfour, 

 I send you a contribution from Newbold received a few days ago. 

 He calls it his first contribution to the Museum of Economic Geology, 

 Rock Specimens from Arabia, Persia and Mesopotamia. 



You might print the list in the next No. of the Journal mean time 

 the Literary Society is the proper Depository of the specimens. 



(Signed) W. Elliot, 



Tell Bantleman to send Newbold the last No. of the Journal. 



I. Resolved, — That this note be recorded, that the Rock Specimens 

 be deposited in the Museum, and that the descriptive list received with 

 them, which is difficult to decipher, be fair copied in a legible hand, 

 for circulation to the Committee, and publication in the Society's 

 Journal as suggested by Mr .W. Elliot. 



