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sure to the elements which they have, now, for years been subjected to, 

 must, if continued, do them immense injury. There is room for many of 

 them in the entrance Hall of the College, if permission could be obtain- 

 ed to place them there. 



With regard to the progress made in the arrangement of the M.S.S. 

 alluded to in para. 5 of the Extract from Minutes of Consultation this 

 duty seems to have been undertaken by W. Elliot, Esq., as a learned 

 man, and altogether independent of his being a Member of our Commit- 

 tee ; and in his absence I do not know of any one who would undertake 

 the duty except perhaps the Rev. W. Taylor, whose equal, as to ac- 

 quaintance with the languages of these M.S.S. will not perhaps, ever 

 again, be found, and w T hose services, if required, should be early em- 

 ployed. 



The Madras Literary Society are publishing all scientific papers that 

 come to hand, and that are considered by the Sub-Committee of Papers 

 worthy of publication. Latterly the Sub-Committee have been obliged 

 to reject many contributions as not equal to the requirements of the day. 

 A few papers received from Government have been published, and the 

 Society will be glad to publish any others that residents in India may 

 send or that the Government records afford, and, in the meantime, they 

 would gladly receive copies of the reports on Travancore and Tanjore 

 as papers of great interest. The Society have, now, in their possession a 

 great collection of highly important and valuable statistical papers on the 

 different districts of the territories of H- H. the Nizam of the Dekhan 

 which General Fraser has most obligingly placed at their disposal and 

 these are gradually being embodied in the Journal. 



College, ? (Signed) Edwasd Balfoub, 



Dec. 1st, 1850. 3 Chairman. 



VII. Resolved^ — That this Meeting concurs generally with the opi- 

 nions expressed by the Chairman of the Committee, in the above Minute, 

 although it does not appear advisable, at present, either to recom- 

 mend the transfer of the Museum to the Madras University, or to make 

 any specific proposition whatever, regarding the collection of Oriental 

 Manuscripts adverted to, with which the Literary Society has, for some 

 time, ceased to have any connexion. A copy of the Chairman's Minute 

 will accordingly be forwarded to Government and application, at the 

 same time, made for sanction to incur such expenses on account of an 

 establishment and furniture, such as cases to contain specimens, &c, as 

 may be found absolutely necessary for the proper preservation and utili- 

 ty of the Museum. 



Resolved further, — At the suggestion of Mr. Williamson, seconded by 

 Mr. Arbuthnot, that, with reference to para. 6 of the Extract under con- 



