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report wliicli accompanied it was not received in time to be inserted in 

 the number of the Society's Journal now passing tlirougli the press, 

 but tliat it is proposed to publish it, with some trifling omissions of offi- 

 cial details, in the next number of the J ournal, and that it will be re- 

 tm^ned, as directed, as soon as a copy has been completed to print from. 



The Chaii'man undertakes to have a copy prepared accordingly. 



Eead letter from H. Cope, Esq., Secretary to the Archajological So- 

 ciety of Delhi, dated Delhi, 6th October, 1847. 

 Sib, 



I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and of 

 those of the following Nos. of the Madras Journal of Literature and 

 Science, viz., 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 

 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31. 



These I had the pleasure to lay on the table at the last Meeting of 

 the Archaeological Society of Delhi, and am desu^ed to return their best 

 thanks to the Madras Literary Society, for this most valuable contribu- 

 tion to their Library. The Society is also under obligations to the 

 Madras Institution for their liberal promise to complete the set of the 

 Journal by forwarding the missing Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and 13, and hope, 

 ere a short time, when the publication of their own proceedings may 

 commence, to be in a position to return the compliment so liberally 

 paid to us. 



I have, &c. 



(Signed) Henry Cope, 



ArchcBohffical Society of Delhi , 



Delhi, 7 

 m Oct. 1847. > 



II. Resolved, — That this letter be recorded, and that copies of Nos. 

 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 and 13 be transmitted to the Archaeological Society of 

 Delhi, with a copy of No. 32 as soon as possible after the publication 

 of the latter. 



Eead letter from Captain Biden, dated Madras, 15th October, 1847, 

 and letter from G. F. FuUerton, Esq., dated 8th October, 1847. 



J. J. LosH, Captain, 



Secretary Madras Literary Society. 



SlE, 



In reply to your letter of the 13th ultimo, which I received yester° 

 day, I beg leave to assure you that I have no recollection of the peri- 

 odical you allude to being received at my house or passed to another 

 Subscriber in a mutilated condition. I have always been in the habit 

 of taking the greatest care of books, wl^ether belonging to mc or to any 



