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



At an Annual General Meeting of the Madras Literary Socie- 

 ty and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held in the 

 Society's Rooms at the College, on Tuesday, the 25th Febru- 

 ary, 1851, at half past 6 o'clock, p. m. 



Present. 



President. 



The Honorable D. Eliott, Esq. in the Chair. 

 Vice-President. 

 The Honorable Sir W. W. Buiiton. 

 Members, 



W. U. Arbuthnot, Esq. Rev. F. G. Lugard, B. A. 



A. J. Arbuthnot, Esq. Major W. P. Macdonald, 



E. G. Balfour, Esq. G. Norton, Esq. 



Major G. Balfour, J. Ouchterlony, Esq. 



R. Davidson, Esq. Lieut. Colonel F. A. Keid, C. B. 



Rev. W. Keane, A. M. S. C. Roe, Esq., M. D. 



Dr. J. Eellie, R. H. Williamson, Esq. 



Dr. T.Key, Major C C Young, and 



W. Liddell, Esq. Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting Messrs. Bmny and Company's 

 Account Current with the Society for 1850, showing a balance in favor 

 of the latter on the 1st January 1851 of Rupees 106-12-0 and, also, a 

 General Statement of the Accounts of the Society, viz. its receipts and 

 disbursements in 1850, and its credits and liabilities on the 1st January, 

 1850, showing a balance in its favor on that date of Rupees 383-15-11. 



I. Hesolved, — That these Accounts, which have been examined and 

 passed by the Committee of Management, and appear satisfactory, be ap- 

 proved and passed. 



Read the following list of donations of books, &c, to the Society since 

 the last Annual General Meeting. 



Donors. 



Rig-Veda Sanhita, the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans 

 together with the Commentary of Sayanacharya, edit- 

 ed by Dr. M. Muller, 1st volume, - Madras Government . 



Two Maps of Arabia, ------- Do. 



Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorologi- 

 cal Observatory at Bombay in 1346 and 1847, 2 vols, - Bombay Government^ 



A Catalogue of the Books in the Gibraltar Garrison 



Library, - - Lt. Col. T.S. Pratt, c.b. 



Botfield's Notes on the Cathedral Libraries of England, The Author. 



