1848.] and Auxiliary Boyal Asiatic Society. 



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not be one exclusively of Economic Geology but that it should combine 

 many subjects of interest, and it will be the object of this Government to 

 afford every facility for rendering the Institution as extensively useful as 

 possible. 



I have the honor to be, &c. &c. 



(Signed) B. G. Clarke, 



Depy. Secy, to Government. 



I. Hesolved, — That this letter be recorded, and laid before the Sub- 

 scribers at the approaching Annual General Meeting. 



i Read letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Madras University, 

 dated 16th December, 1846, acknowledging receipt of letter from the Of- 

 ficiating Secretary Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, dated 24th November, 1846, and forwarding, for the infor- 

 mation of the Managing Committee, copy of a letter recently addressed 

 to Government by the President of the Madras University, conveying the 

 opinion of the President and Governors of that Institution, on certain 

 points connected with the proposed establishment of a central Museum 

 of Economic Geology at Madras. 



II. Resolved^ — That this letter be recorded. 



Read the following letter from T. S. Smith, Esq., dated 29tli Decem- 

 ber, 1846. 



Madras, Decemler 29th, 1846, 



To 



The Secretary to the Literary Society. 

 Sir, 



I saw a few days ago at Monsieur Deschamp's on the Mount Road, a set 

 of Books which I think would be a very desirable addition to the Stock 

 Books of the Library; and as I am told it is for sale, and the price seems 

 reasonable, I request you will be good enough to bring it to the notice 

 of the Committee. The work is the " Theatre Franyais de Scribe" in 

 20 volumes, whole bound, and very well illustrated, and the price set 

 upon it is eighty Rupees. 



I have the honor to be, &c. &c. 



(Signed) Thos. SydjNEY Smith. 



III. The Committee having examined two volumes of the work in 

 question which haa been forwarded for their inspection, are of opinion 

 that the price put upon it is much too high, and that, even if it was 

 procurable on more reasonable terms, it would be inexpedient to purchase 

 an expensive foreign work, until the accounts for the past^ear are made 

 up, and the state of the Society's Funds ascertained. 



The Officiating Secretary lays before the Meeting two letters from 

 Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., dated 19th October, and 19th November, 

 1846, submitting an explanation respecting the supposed incompleteness 



