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Proceedings of the Mad. Lit Society 



[No. 38, 



for their ordinary Monthly Meeting in November, which did not take 

 place in consequence of the inclemency of the weather. 

 Read the following letters : — 



1st. From the Royal Academy of Bavaria, dated Munich, 12th Feb- 

 ruary, 1S50. 



2d. From Commander C. W. Montrion of the Indian Navy and Su- 

 perintendent Observatory, dated Colaba Observatory, 8th July, 1850. 



3d. From the Chief Secretary to Government, dated Fort St. George, 

 30th September, 1S50, Public Department, No. 877, with Extract from 

 the Minutes of Consultation in the Public Department, dated 9th July, 

 1850, No. 588. 



4th. From the Officiating Secretary Bombay Branch Eoyal Asiatic 

 Society, dated Bombay Town Hall, 21st October, 1850. 



1. I. Resolved, — That the above letters be 



W^M: "corded, that the books and other put*- 



a cations which accompanied them, as per 



l £3S££3£8S%£& «*«■»». be deposited in the Society's Li- 



made at the Observatory brary, and laid before the next General An- 



Culaba,during the year 1846. ^ Meeting of the Subscribers, and that 



1st Volume of the Rig Vada the usual course be adopted for acknow- 

 Sanhita, edited by l>r. Max . _ . . . . , . . , 



McLUer of Berlin. ledgmg their receipt, and thanking the do- 



1 Copy of the Transactions n0r3 > 0n behalf ° f the MadraS literary 

 of the Bombay Branch Royal Society. 

 Asiatic Society, No. XIII. 



Bead letter from Norton Shaw, Esq., Secretary to the Eoyal Geogra- 

 phical Society of London, dated 20th July, 1850, acknowledging receipt 

 of No. 36 vol. XV. of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 

 expressing the best thanks of the Eoyal Geographical Society for the 

 donation, and observing that the Society has only received No. 13, vols. 

 10 to 13 inclusive and Nos. 32 to 36 of the publication in question. 

 Also forwarding for the acceptance of the Madras Literary Society a 

 copy of the first part of the 20th vol. of the Journal of the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society of London. 



II. Resolved, — That the Book received with the above letter be de- 

 posited in the Society's Library, and laid before the next General An- 

 nual Meeting of the Subscribers, that its receipt be acknowledged with 

 thanks, and that steps be immediately taken to complete the set of the 

 Madras Journal of Literature and Science in the Library of the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society of London. 



Eead letter from E. Cole, Esq., dated Cape Town, 3d September, 1850, 

 in reply to a letter from the Secretary, dated 16th February, 1850, 



