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Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society 



Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and 



Antarctic Seas, by Captain Sir James Ross, 

 Life of the late Lord Hill, by the Rev: Edward Sidney. 

 Lord Mahon's History of England. 



History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, from the German of 



Lappenberg, by B. Thorpe Murray. 

 Hist-ry of Painting in Italy, from the German of Kugler — Edited by 



Eastlake. 

 Brummell's Memoirs. 

 Churchill's Pov.ms, by Tooke Pickering. 

 Adair's Memoirs of the Court of Vienna. 

 Biographical Dictionary of the Society of Useful Knowledge 

 Sir C. Bell's Anatomy of Expression. 

 Lady Willoughby's Diary. 

 Western Barbary, by J. H. Drummond Hay. 



Seventh Report of the Massachussett's Board of Education, by H. 

 Mann. 



The Young Student, by Mad. Guizot. 

 Siborne's Battle of Waterloo. 



Sir Walter Scott's Poetical Works, a good second-hand copy. 

 The Calcutta Review, to be procured from Bengal. 



Resolved, — That a Circular embodying the four first pages of the So- 

 ciety's Catalogue be printed, inviting gentlemen to become Members of 

 the Society. 



Mr. Thorpe's account for printing the 30th Number of the Society's 

 Journal is laid on the table. 



Resolved, — That Mr. Bantleman be requested to take steps for collect- 

 ing the subscriptions on account of the Society's Journal. 



Mr. Walter Elliot reads the following extract of a letter from Captain 

 T. J. Newbold, requesting the aid of any Member of the Committee 

 in preparing a magnified drawing of the fossil foraminifera. J 



" That the subject of Indian Geology is gaining ground is evident. A 

 few days ago, I received a letter from General Fraser, enclosing me some 

 queries from General Briggs, vised, by De la Beche and Phillips, regard- 

 ing the existence of boulders in S. India, which I have answered to 

 the best of my ability. The supposed boulders in the vicinity of Hydera- 

 bad and Puttuncherroo, (mentioned by Brongniart on the authority of De 

 Luc, I think,) I examined particularly several years ago, and found them 

 of granite, similar to the granite on which they reposed, and therefore not 

 boulders in the geological sense of the term. Their rolled appearance b 



