SI 6 Proceedings' of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. 34, 



House, at 7 o'clock, r. M., on the 1st Tuesday in each month, as was the 

 custom up to the close of last year. 



VII. Resolved, —That a copy of Shelley's Poetical Works offered for sale, 

 at the price of 7^ Eupees, by Mr. Higglubotham, be purchased for the Li- 

 brary. 



(Signed) Walter Elliot, (Signed) J. J. Losh, 



Chairman. Secretary M. L. S. &^-e. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee, held at the Club House 

 on Tuesday, the 6th July, 1847. 



Eead letter, dated Munich, 26th April, 1847, from the President and 

 Secretary of the Eoyal Academy of Sciences of Bavaria, intimating, that 

 certain works published by the Royal Academy have been transmitted for 

 the acceptance of the Madras Literary Society ; and that, upon closer in- 

 spection of the works in the Library of the Academy, various deficiencies 

 have been discovered in the works furnished by the Literary Society. 



The Committee observe that a box,^containing works published by the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences of Bavaria, has been recently received ; and that 

 measures are already in progress to obtain the v^orks required to supply 

 the deficiencies pointed out in the publications forwarded to the Academy. 



I. Resolved, — That on the receipt of the' expected communications 

 from R. Wight, Esq., and the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 in reply to the letters recently addressed to them by direction of the 

 Committee, the receipt of this letter, and the former one on the same 

 subject, and of the publications adverted to, be acknowledged, and the 

 best thanks of the Society offered for the donation. 



^Iemo. Read Memorandum from C. P. Brown, Esq., 



peVv^Press"tocaku"ateThe^cos^ having reference to the 2d Resolution at the 



of re-printing the missing iNos. Mnnthlv Meeting 



of the Madras Journal, and I ^^^^ iVioniniy ivieeimg. 



handed him my own Copy for jj Resolved,— even should it be 



inspection. Ihe accompanying 



is his reply. found impossible to obtain the deficient num- 



1 he charge seems rather high, , „ . 



but I am not sure we could get bers of the^ Journal, the present condition 

 t e wor one more cheaply. ^j^^ Society's Funds would not admit of 



ii:^i::^^!^SS^i^ volumes 1 and 4 being re-printed at a cost 

 Tristram Shandy which, in the of upwards of 1,250 Rupees. The conside- 



beginning of \ol. 3, bears the ^ » r 



Author's signature. ration of the subject is therefore postpon- 



( Signed) C.F.Brown. , ^-i ^i. • i. i- xi. i c-\n 



lOih June. until the receipt of the reply of Messrs. 



Allen and Co., to the letter recently address- 

 ed to them, respecting the numbers of the Journal in their charge. Re- 

 solved further, that the thanks of the Society be offered to Mr. Brown, for 

 his donation to the Library. 



