342 Abstract of proceedings of the r No. 30. 



( Should a smaller number of copies be required than 200 the charge 

 ■would be proportionately less for paper, covering stitching &c. the charge 

 for printing would be the same. 



Resolved. — that a Xotice be circulated to the old Subscribers r^e^esting 

 their continued support to the renewed publication of the Journal under 

 the modified form now proposed and at a cost not exceeding I £ or 2 Ru- 

 pees per number, also that steps be taken to procure additional subscribers 

 at out stations by the dispatch of printed circulars to every station and 

 by the publication of an Advertisement in the Government Gazette and 

 the Spectator Newspapers. 



The sub Committee appointed to take into consideration Captain New- 

 bolds proposition for rendering the Mackenzie M. S. S. available to the 

 public, having reported in favor of it. 



Resolved. — that J. C. Morris Esq. be requested to draw up a distinct 

 proposal to Government for the purpose of carrying out the object of 

 the Society. 



The sub Committee for the museum of Economic Geology lay 

 before the meeting their Report which is read as follows : 



There can be but one opinion as to the utility and desirableness of es- 

 tablishing a Museum of Economic Geology in Madras, as proposed by Cap- 

 tain Newbold, but it is quite certain that the Literary Seciety does not 

 possess the means, constituted as it now is, of carrying such an object into 

 effect. 



An institution of the kind, exists at Calcutta, designated the " Museum 

 of Economic Geology of India" a brief sketch of the origin and constitu- 

 tion of which will serve to shew how impossible it would be for us here to 

 carry out such a plan, without greatly increased resources 



Originating (we believe) in a suggestion by Mr. Dela Beche Director 

 of the Ordnance Geological Survey in England, the Honorable Court of 

 Directors of the East India Company addressed a recommendation to the 

 Government of Bengal that a Museum should be established in Calcutta, 

 and offered to give a " moderate salary to any individual who might be 

 found competent for the discharge of the duties of Curator ;" Mr. Dela 

 Beche having stated in his report on the subject " that a Laboratory and 

 good analytic chemist appointed to it were among the earliest requi- 

 sites," the Governor of Bengal at the recommendation of the Asiatic 

 Society nominated Mr. Piddington Curatorwith a Salary of 250 Rupees 

 per mensem and the Society made arrangements for the "efficient estab- 



