and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



] st November, the dates noted in the margin, and to request that you 

 3 23dMarch 1813 supply the information therein solicited, and furnish 



No. 264. the specimens of the porcelain clay, and of the deposit 



containing fossils required by the Government of India. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 

 Fort St. George, ^ (Signed) J. F. Thomas, 



2d March, 1844. \ Secretary to Government. 



} Resolved,— That the Sub-Committee be requested to prepare a report 

 for submission to Government. 



Read a letter from R. W. Chatfield, Esq., dated 15th March, 1844. 

 Stating that he has been nominated to a situation in the Mofussil, and 

 regrets therefore the necessity of being obliged to resign his post as a 

 Member of the Committee. 



Resolved, — That the following works be ordered out from England for 

 the Society. 



Professor Forbes' Work on Glaciers. 



The Linnsean Translations; and to make inquiries for a set of the early 

 volumes. 



That with reference to the Resolution of the 21st February last, the 

 British Critic be again ordered. 



Proposed by J. Dent, Esq., and seconded by the Rev. G. Knox. 



That no order or standing Rule of the Committee be rescinded or 

 altered without a month's previous notice. 



Two letters received from the Society's Booksellers, dated 30th and 31st 

 January, 1844, are also laid before the Meeting. 



Read a letter from John Sullivan, Esq., dated 2d February, 1844, stat- 

 ing that he had taken steps for replacing the missing volumes of Buffon 

 and Montesquieu. 



Proposed that Messrs. Morris, Knox, and Worster, be formed into a 

 Sub-Committee for the purpose of improving the circulation of the peri- 

 odical publications. 



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

 and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held on Monday evening, the 

 22d April, 1844. 



Read the following letter from the Secretary to Government, dated 

 30th March, 1844. 



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