1849.] 



a7id A2ix{liary Royal Asiatic Society. 



353 



The Government have no objection to the publication in the Society's 

 J ournal, of E-eports of a scientific character, selected from the records 

 of Government, and from those of other public offices, as proposed by 

 the Society, to a limited extent, and submitted, in the first instance, to 

 the Government ; but, before engaging to incur any expense on this ac- 

 count, they request to be furnished with the statement proposed to be 

 submitted in the concluding para, of the foregoing letter. 



(A true extract.) 



(Signed) J. F. Thomas, 

 To Chief Secretary. 



The Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



and Aujtiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



I, Resolved, — That inquiry be made as to the probable expense of 

 printing the paper regarding the gold mines in Malabar, revised by the 

 Chairman of the Committee, in the forthcoming number of the Society's 

 J ournal ; and that, as soon as the required information on this point is 

 obtained, the paper be forwarded for the perusal of Government, with 

 the statement called for : further, that it be intimated that the Commit- 

 tee propose, also, to publish the Report of their Sub-Committee on 

 the collection of JSTative MSS. in the Society's charge, which was for- 

 warded to Government in J anuary last, and that permission be solicited 

 to submit to the Civil Auditor, periodically, bills for the cost of printing 

 the above, and other Government papers, in the Society's J ournal. 



Read letter from the Senior Secretary to the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal. 



To 



The Secretary to the Madras Literary Society. 

 Sir, 



I have the honor to enclose the receipt held by this office for the par- 

 eels containing the books referred to in your letter of the 25th June, 

 and which were duly forwarded to you by the Steamer ''Bentinck" on 

 her June voyage. 



I have, &c. 



Asiatic Society, ) (Signed) W. B. O'Shaughnessy, 



Qth August, 1847. i Senior Secretary Asiatic Society, 



The Committee observe that the parcel adverted to has been duly re- 

 ceived, and that, as expected, its contents were found to be the Acade- 

 mical publications of the Hoyal Bavarian Academy, mentioned in the 

 letter from the Secretary to that Institution, dated Munich, 10th 

 May, 1846. 



II. Resolved, — That the publications in question be deposited is 

 the Library, and included in the next catalogue. 



