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Y. Resolved, — That the Editors of the Spectator, Athenaum, Cres- 

 cent, United Service Gazette, and Circulator be each furnished with a 

 copy of the revised rules of the Society, with an intimation that the 

 rules for the 3d class of Subscribers are entirely new. 



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



Chairman. Secretary M. L. S. S^c. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society and Auxiliary of tli.e Royal Asiatic Society, held at the 

 Club House, on Tuesday, the 3d October, 1848, at 7 o'clocJc, r. m. 



Present. 



Chairman. 

 Walter Elliot, Esq. 

 3Icmhers. 



Major P. Anstruther, c. b. 



Lieut. Colonel O. Felix, 



Major R. Garstin, 



J. Ouchterlony, Esq. 



T. Pycroft, Esq. 



E. H. Williamson, Esq., and 



Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



Eead letter from the Secretary to the Board of Eevenue in the De- 

 partment of Public Works,dated 21st September, 1848, ]S'o. 729, forward- 

 ing copy of a letter which the Board propose to address to Grovernment 

 upon the subject of the formation of a centralMuseum of Economic Ge- 

 ology at the Presidency should the other public bodies with whom they 

 have been directed to act in concert, concur therein. 



Department or Public Works. 



Madras, 21s^ September, 1848. 



1^0. 729. 



From Captain J. H. Bell, 



Secretary to the Board of Revenue in the 



Department of Public Works. 

 To the Secretary to the Literary Society. 

 Sir, 



I am directed by the Board of Eevenue, with reference to the order 

 August 4th 1846, Government upon the subject of the formation of a 



^o- ^'6. central Museum of Economic Geologv at tlie Presi- 



