1844.] 



Madras Literary Society. 



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At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 

 and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society on Monday the 19th Sep- 

 tember 1842. 



Several Members having brought their reformed portions of the Cata- 

 logue, Resolved that in compliance with his offer the Rev. G. Knox be 

 requested to superintend the preparation of the new Catalogue and that 

 a Writer be specially placed under his orders. r 



That all books recommended as desiderata to be added to the Library- 

 be included under their several heads in a separate book as a sort of new 

 Catalogue. 



With a view to a renewal of the Journal as determined at the Gene- 

 ral Meeting held on the 18th August 1841, it is proposed that the fol- 

 lowing Gentlemen be elected as a Committee of Papers, or rather that the 

 whole Committee be considered as a Committee of Papers and that 

 Messrs. Worster and Elliot be joint Secretaries to the Committee of 

 Papers, that the Secretaries examine all Papers and circulate such as they 

 think proper and adapted for publication on examining the papers al- 

 ready collected and take measures to collect new ones. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 

 and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society held on Saturday the \9th 

 November 1842. 



The Secretary reads the following letter received by him from Mr. Pid- 

 dington. ^ 

 Sir, 



I am authorised by the Committee of Papers of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety, to forward to you the accompanying Memorandum relative to the Museum 

 of Economic Geology of India now forming, in the confident hope that you 

 will personally , and through your friends, kindly assist their views and those 

 of Government, as far as lies in your power. 



With respeet to carriage of Speciynens, such small ones as may not exceed the 

 usual daxck banghy weight, say 500 Tolas, may be sent at once, addressed to the 

 Secretary of the Asiatic Society, and those above that 10 eight dispatched by the 

 nearest water carriage, preferring the Steamers if obtainable. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 Calcutta, 1st November, 1842. H. PIDDINGTON. 



Curator, Mus, Econ. Geology of India, 



