and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



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At an Annual General Meeting of the Madras Literary Society and Aux- 

 iliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held at the Society's Rooms, at the Col- 

 lege, on Tuesday, the 23d January, 1844. 



The Honorable Sir E. Gambiee, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary submitted to the meeting an abstract statement of the 

 funds of the Society for the past year, exhibiting a balance in its favor 

 of Rupees 1,100 if 4. 



The following donations having been made to the Society since the 

 last annual general meeting, the thanks of the Society were unanimously 

 voted to the donors. 



Lieut. Eastwick's Vocabulary of the Sindi language, by the author. 



Knox's Giotto and Francesca and other poems, by the Rev. G. Knox. 



Printed Report on the Honorable Company's Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 

 by the Madras Government. 



A lithographed copy in 2 vols, of the Vandidad, in the Zand language, 

 but Guzarathi character, with a Guzarathi translation, paraphrase, and 

 comment, by Aspandiarji Framji and other learned Dasturs of theKadmi 

 sect of Parsis, by the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Dr. Forbes' Papers on the Nature and History of the Plague in the 

 North West Provinces of India, by J. G. Malcolmson, Esq. 



It was announced to the meeting that the following gentlemen have 



been elected Members of the Society since the last annual general 

 meeting. 



Lieut. Col. P. Montgomerie, C. B. S. D. Birch, Esq. 



Hon'ble H. Chamier, Esq. B. Cunliffe, Esq. 



W. H. Rose, Esq. Captain G. Halpin, 



v W. A. Serle, Esq. > T. S. Smyth, Esq. 



Rev. E. Whitehead, A.M. J. R. Boyson, Esq. 



During the last year the Society has lost four Members by death, re- 

 tirement, or departure for Europe. 



Read a letter from Captain T. J. Newbold, dated 25th December, 1843, 

 forwarding for presentation to the Society a specimen of sulphate of 

 barytes from the Nullamulla Hills. The thanks of the meeting were 

 unanimously voted to Captain Newbold for the same, and his valuable 

 paper which accompanied it, containing an interesting geographical des- 

 cription of the locality from whence the mineral was procured, is referred 

 to the Committee with a view to its being published in the next number 

 of the Society's Journal. 

 [Published in No. 30.] 



