1848.] and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 209 



At an Annual General Meeting of the Madras Literary Society^ 

 held in the Society's Rooms, at the College, on Thursday, the 

 25th February, 1847. 



The Secretary submitted to the Meeting, Messrs. Binny and Co.'s Ac- 

 count Current with the Society for 1846, showing a balance in favor of 

 the latter, on the 1st January, 1847, of Kupees 790-11-0 and also a gene- 

 ral account of the receipts and disbursements of the Society in 1846, and 

 its credits and liabilities on the 1st January, 1847, showing a balance in 

 its favor of Kupees 209-14-5. 



I. Mesolved, — That these accounts, which have been passed by the Ma- 

 naging Committee, and appear satisfactory, be approved accordingly. 



Read letter from the Deputy Secretary to Government, in the Poiblic 

 Department, dated Fort St. George, 11th December, 1846, No. 1095, con- 

 veying the thanks of Government for the offer of the Society's Museum, 

 which is accepted on the terms proposed, and stating that arrangements 

 will hereafter be made for depositing it where it can be most advantage- 

 ously placed. Observing, further, that it is apparently the desire of the 

 Honorable the Court of Directors that the proposed Central Museum 

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

 combine many subjects of interest, and that it will be the object of Go- 

 vernment to afford every facility for rendering the Institution as exten- 

 sively useful as possible. 



II. Resolved, — That the Society's Museum be accordingly made over 

 to Government when applied for. 



Read the following list of Donations of Books, &c., to the Society, since 

 the last Annual General Meeting. 



Reports, Correspondence, and Original Papers on ^ Donors. 



various professional subjects connected with(^ The Officers of the 

 the Duties of the Corps of Engineers, Madras ( Corps of Madras En- 

 Presidency, 2d Volume. 3 gineers. 



Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires duNord, ) Societe Royale des 

 1840-1843 j Antiquaires du Nord. 



Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires du Nord, ? 

 1844 .... S 



Antiquarise Tidsskript Udgivetafdet Kongeligel -n. ,. 



Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab J 



Memoire Sur la Decouverte de L'Amerique au I -of t5 r 

 Dixieme Siecle, P^^^^ssor Rafu. 



Q Government of France 

 The Bhagavata Parana translated into French, ^ through the Transla- 



2 Vols., J tor, M. Eugene Bur- 



( nouf. 



III. Resolved, — That the above mentioned works be placed in the 

 Library for the use of Subscribers, and included in the next Cata- 



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