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Proceedings of the Mad. LIL Sociefi/ [No. 



* Dated 31st Jidy, 1847. ^^^^^ * ^^'^^^ Messrs. Tliacker and Co., 



Calcutta, forwarding a statement of theii- ac- 

 count, amounting to Eupees 106-8, and requesting an order for the 

 amount. 



The Committee observe that the former statement of account, referred 

 to by Messrs. Thacker and Co. as rendered on the 20th May last, was 

 forwarded, according to its address, to xissistant Surgeon Jerdon. 



III. JResolved, — That this be intimated to Messrs. Thacker and Co., 

 and that they be requested to forward a statement of the items of their 

 account, to enable the Committee to judge if any of them are chargeable 

 to the Society, or if the whole, as before supposed, is a private account 

 with the late Secretary Mr. Jerdon. 



j^j-^^^ Head Memorandmn from the Librarian. 



Of a Copy of Blackwood's IV. JResolved, — That the Secretaries to the 

 was &st ci^Satef to ^^iatic Society of Bengal be requested to 

 Lieut. Colonel Pratt, C. B., se- forward the deficient leaves of No. V. (new 

 S\:st ^-^ries) of the Society's Journal ; and that Mr, 

 pages 703 and 704, and pages Fullerton and Captain Biden be apphed to, 

 ''l^!j^:f^ZS^ reference to the 3cl Sule for the Libra- 



Society of Bengal for Mav, ry of the Society, which must be enforced, 

 iiv^'^-?wantiig.'^^^'''''^" ^less a satisfactory explanation be fur- 



The volume of " ]\Iaxwell," nished. 

 liere-svith sent, was returned to 

 the Library by G.P. Fullerton, 

 Esq., in its present condition, 

 with pages 15 and 16 missing. 

 On the book being sent back 

 to Mr. F. he sent the accom- 

 panying note. 



Laid on the Table 19 of the printed notices recently issued by the 

 Committee, on the subject of the Society's Journal, which have been 

 returned from stations in the Mofussil, with lists of new Subscribers to 

 the Journal ; and also a general hst of the old and new Subscribers, the 

 latter amounting to 54 according to the last received accounts. 



Read letters from Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and Co., dated 17th and 

 19th July, 1847, advising the despatch of books per Wellesley" and 

 of periodicals per Steamer for the Society. 



V. Resolved, — That the receipt of these letters and of the periodicals 

 aUuded to, be acknowledged, and that they be requested to send out 

 the following works for the use of the Society. 

 Guizot's History of Civilization, 3 vols. 

 McCuUoch's Account of the British Empire. 



Schlosser's History of the 18th Century, translated by Davison, 4 vols. 

 The Commissioner De Lunatico Inquirendo, 1847. 

 In conformity with the 7th Resolution at the Meeting on the 8th De- 

 cember, 1846. a Memorandum of the sums receiyed on account of sub- 



