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Resolved, — That the Society's thanks be conveyed to the Secretary, 

 J. fO. Malcolmson, Esq., for the same. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to Government, dated 5th January, 

 1844, transmitting a copy of a printed Report on the Honorable Company's 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 



Fort St. George, Jth January, 1815. 



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No. 27. 1 



To 



The Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Gentlemen, 



I am directed by the Most Noble the Governor in Council to 



Public ' 



Depart- transmit to you copy of a printed Report on the Honorable Com- 

 men ' pany's Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, received from the Government 

 of Bengal, 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) J. F. Thomas, 



Secretary to Government. 



Resolved, — That in acknowledging the receipt of this work, the respect- 

 ful thanks of the Society be conveyed to the Most Noble the Governor in 

 Council for the same. 



The Secretary lays before the Meeting several letters received from the 

 Society's Booksellers, advising the dispatch of Books and Magazines, 



Life, Writings, and Inventions of Dr. Cartwright. 



Barrow's Life of Sir F. Drake. 



Gaily Knight on the early Architecture of Italy. 



Ranke's History of the Reformation, translated by Miss Austin. 



Ireland and its Rulers since 1829. 



English Universities by Huber, translated by Newman.' 

 Travels of Marco Polo, edited by Marsden, second-hand copy ; and 

 Brewster's Edinburgh Journal, No. 18, in 1828, containing Lord 

 Oxmantown's Experiments on Specula, or the number containing 

 that Paper ; and Coddington's Optics I. Refraction-Reflexion II. 

 and Eye and Optical Instruments for Captain Worster. 



(Signed) J. Mixchix, 



Secretary M L S. Src 



