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[No. 38, 



specimens obtained from their respective localities, measures for their 

 formation must be also postponed until the Central Museum Las been 

 instituted. 



3. The collections made over to the Government by the Madras Li- 

 terary Society will remain for the present in the College— no expense 

 on their account being incurred. The Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society will be so good as to report for the information of the Ho- 

 norable Court, the present condition of this Collection, and whether it 

 is properly arranged and classified, and is available for public inspec- 

 tion—also whether the space allotted for it in the College is sufficient 

 for the purpose intended and will admit of any addition that may here- 

 after be received from the provinces. 



4. With reference to the publication of Scientific reports on the 

 records of Government it is observed that the Honorable Court were in- 

 formed in the despatch from this Department of the 9th November, 1847, 

 that, at the suggestion of the Committee of the Madras Literary Society, 

 and as the best mode of giving the papers publicity, the Government had 

 permitted the publication in the Society's Journal of reports selected from 

 the public records, and with a view to aid the Society in defraying the 

 expense of printing Government papers had consented to take thirty 

 copies of each number of their Journal. Of these five copies are regu- 

 larly transmitted to England. No outlay beyond the cost of the 30 co- 

 pies is incurred by the State on this account. 



5. The papers noted in the appended List, as will be observed, have 

 been published. 



6. The Madras Literary Society will now be called on to state whe- 

 ther they are ready to undertake the further publication of reports on 

 the records of Government a list of such documents seeming fit for pub- 

 lication will be prepared and sent to the Committee. 



7. It is observed that the reports received from Mr. Walter Elliot, 

 through the Committee of the Madras Literary Society of the progress 

 made in the examination and classification of the Oriental Works and 

 Manuscripts referred to in the concluding para, of this despatch, were for- 

 warded to the Honorable Court on the dates indicated in the margin. 



The final report promised in para. 8 of Mr. Elliot's 

 ilth OctoS 1349. letter t0 the Secretary to the Literary Society, dated 



7th July, 1849, has not been received, and, as that 

 Gentleman has left the Presidency, the Committee will be requested to 

 state whether the classification of the remaining Works to be examined 

 has been completed, — and, if so, to submit, for transmission to England 

 a Catalogue of the whole of the Collections. 



8. The Honorable Court were informed in para. 8 of the despatch 

 from this Department, dated 12th January, 1849, that the examination of 



