1850.] and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



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At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society , 

 held at the Club House, on Tuesday, the 1st July, 1851, at 

 6 o'clock, p. m. 



Present. 

 Chairman. 

 E. Gr. Balfour, Esq. 

 Members. 



S. C. Roe, Esq., M. D. R. H. Williamson, Esq. and 



Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



Absent. 



A. J. Arbuthnot, Esq. Dr. T. Key, 



Major G. Balfour, J. Ouchterlony, Esq. 



Dr. J. Kellie, Major T. T. Pears, C. B. 



T. Pycroft, Esq. 

 Read letter from Lieut. Colonel O. Felix. 



Madras, 9th Jane, 1851. 

 Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th in- 

 stant, informing me that I had been elected a Member of the Managing 

 Committee of the Literary Society, but the prospect of my stay at the 

 Presidency is so uncertain that I feel I should only be occupying the place 

 of some other who might be permanently useful to the Society, and I 

 must therefore, with very many thanks to the Members who elected me , 

 request permission to decline the honor. 



(Signed) O. Felix. 



To Captain Losh, Secretary to the Madras Literary Society, Sfc. fyc. 



I. Resolved, — That this letter be recorded, and that Major C. C„ 

 Young, be invited to become a Member of the Committee of Manage- 

 ment. 



Read letters from Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., dated 30th April and 

 19th May 1851, advising the despatch of periodicals and books per 

 Steamer. 



II. Resolved, — That the receipt of Messrs. Allen and Co.'s letters be 

 acknowledged, and that they be requested to send out the following 

 books for the use of the Society : — 



The Creed of Christendom, its Foundations and Superstructure, by W. R. 



Gregg. -j 



