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custody and classification of the specimens you may receive from the 

 District Museums, as well as of those made over to you by the Lite- 

 rary Society of Madras. 



4. We wish to be informed of any arrangements you may have already 

 made for the formation of a Central Museum, or of local repositories, and 

 of the expense you may have incurred on account of them. 



5. You have failed to furnish us, agreeably to our instructions of 2nd 

 December 1847, with quarterly reports of the progress made in the ar- 

 rangement of the M. S. S. placed under your charge by the Literary 

 Society, nor have you informed us whether any steps have been taken 

 for printing a selection of the scientific reports on the records of Govern- 

 ment, as authorized in our Despatch, No. 12 of 1846. You will supply 

 these omissions and will inform us of the expense incurred on each of 

 these accounts and whether the temporary establishment we sanctioned 

 for the former of the objects is still entertained, and if so how much 

 longer it is in your opinion, to be required. 



We are, 



Your loving friends, 

 London, ~l (Signed) John Shephebd, 



the 31st July, 1850. * „ J. W. Hogg. 



List of Government Papers published in the Madras Journal of Litera- 

 ture and Science, from July 1847. 



Description of the Laccadive Islands. By W. Eobmson,Esq. of the Civil 

 Service. 



Geographical and Statistical Memoir of Survey of the Neilgherry Moun- 

 tains, under the superintendence of Captain J. Ouchteiiony, 1847. 



Notice of the Scientific Labors of the late Dr. Alexander Turnbull 

 Christie, with extracts from his Official reports submitted to Government. 



Report on the influence exercised by Trees on the Climate of a Country, 

 by Assistant Surgeon Edward Balfour, Madras Army. 



Do. do. Major General W. Cullen. 



Do. do. Surgeon J. C. Smith of the Mysore Commission. 



(Signed) H. C. Montgomery, 



Chief Secretary. 



Read Minute of the Chairman with reference to the above Extract 

 from the Minutes of Consultation. 



Minute by Assistant Surgeon E. G. Balfour, Chairman Committee Mad- 

 ras Literary Society. 



Until the receipt of Extract from Minutes of Consultation, Public De- 

 partment, No. 9S5, dated 1st November 1850,1 (as,I imagine, did, likewise, 

 all the Committee,) supposed that the Literary Society's Museum, which 

 had been presented to Government and the present accepted, was no longer 

 under the charge of the Society ; and, under this impression, I carefully 



