1848.] and Auxiliary Ecnjal Asiatic Society. 



Read letter* from Lieut. Colonel Pratt, C. B., sug- 



* 18th March, 1847. . , , ^ . , n , • • c 



gestmg that the Society should be in possession ot 



the work published under the title of " Papers on subjects connected with 

 the duties of the Corps of Eoyal Engineers" edited by Captain Denison, 

 R. E., of which eight Volumes in 4to. bound in cloth at the price of 

 £ 11-6-0 have already been published. The Librarian informed the Com- 

 mittee that Captain Ludlow has tendered to the Society a new and uncut 

 copy of the above work at 15 per cent, less than the original price. 



IV. JResolved, — That the offer of Captain Ludlow be accepted, and 

 that he be requested to direct the forthcoming volumes of the work to be 

 transmitted to the Society as published. 



Read Extract from Minutes of Consultation in the Public Department, 

 No. 278, dated 17th March, 1847, conveying instructions to the Civil Au- 

 ditor, to continue to pass the Bill for the salaries of the three individuals 

 attached to the Native Library in the charge of the Society, until the 

 arrangement sanctioned by Government on the 5th January, 1847, has 

 been carried into effect. 



V. Resolved, — That the Chairman, and Secretary, as Members of the 

 late Sub-Committee which recommended the arrangements adverted to 

 in this communication from Government, be requested to take the requi- 

 site steps for carrying them into effect at as early a period as practicable. 



No. ]. Bituminous lime- Chairman produces four mineral specimens, 



stone pebble from shore . • tvt 



of Dead i;ea. as per margin, received by him from Captain New- 



No. 2. Vesicular basalt i i i p j. i o • ^ ^ 

 from theHavuran E. of Dold, lor the bociety's Museum. 



No ^sl^'^Compact fossile Resolved, — That the specimens in question 



baWit, extinct Volcano deposited in the Museum, and that the Chair- 



ot CavaDevht.—Katake i ' 



kaumene, Asia Minor, man be requested to offer the thanks of the Corn- 

 No. 4. Vein of green- _^ 

 chert in Trachyte of mittee to Captain Newbold. 



Eead letters from Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and 



Co., dated 29th January, and 19th February, 1847, advising the despatch 



of books per Ship Tartar ^ and of periodicals per Steamer, for the Society. 



The Secretary reports that since the last monthly Meeting, J. U. Ellis, 

 Esq. and D. Ross, Esq., have intimated their intention of ceasing to sub- 

 scribe, and that C. St. John, Esq., and C. V. Conniah Chetty, have be- 

 come Subscribers, the former in the first, and the latter in the second 

 class ; and, also, that the number of Resident Members has been consi- 

 derably reduced since the commencement of the present year. 



VIL Resolved, — That, as it is believed that many Gentlemen are pre- 

 vented from joining the Society by want of sufficient knowledge of its 

 objects, regulations, and terms of admission, a sufficient number of co- 

 pies of the Rules with corrected lists of the Resident and Non-Resident 

 Members, be printed for transmission to all eligible parties on their urriv- 

 al at the Presidency. 



