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and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 195 



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

 and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, on Friday Evening, the 

 20th December, 1844. 



Read two letters from Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and Co., dated 9th Sep- 

 tember and 7th October, 1844 — advising the despatch of books per the 

 John Line and the Emerald Isle, 



Read the following letter from the Secretary to the Bombay Geogra- 

 phical Society. 



No. 51 of 1844. 



To 



The Secretary to the Literary Society, 



Madras. 



Sir, 



I have had the pleasure at the Quarterly Meeting of this Society, held 

 on the 7th Instant, to submit the work entitled " Madras Journal of Li- 

 terature and Science, edited by the Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society, June, 1844, No. 30," for- 

 warded by you for presentation; and I am directed to convey to you the 

 best thanks of the Society, for your very acceptable donation. 

 Geol. Society's Rooms, ^ I have the honor to be, &c. 

 Town Hall, Bombay, > (Signed) Geo. Buist, 



15th November, 1844. 3 Secretary to the Society, 



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

 the Society. 



The North British Review. 



Cuvier's large "Work " Les Ossemens Fossiies," second-hand copy. 



Arago's Lives of Herschel and Watts. 

 Resolved, — That a letter be addressed to Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and 

 Co., with reference to their letter of the 26th June last, on the subject of 

 the Linnsean Transactions to the effect of the note on the Proceedings of 

 the last Meeting. 



Resolved also,— That Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and Co. be requested to 

 inform us of the price of " Agassig's Works." 



