Extractfromthe 

 Minutes of Con- 

 sul tation,datccl4th 



18^ Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. 33, 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society, on Tuesday Ecening the ist September, 1846. 

 Read the following Extract from the Minutes of Consultation of 

 Government, dated 4th August, 1846. forwarding Extract from a Let- 

 ter from the Honorable the Court of Directors, dated 20th May, 

 No. 12, of 1846, and copies of the papers therein referred to. 



Public Depahtment. 

 Ext7'act fro7n a Letter from the 



Honorable the Court of Directors, August, 1846. 



Ordered that co- 



dated 20th May, No. 12, of 1846. pies of these paras 



•' and the papers no- 



Ansiver to Letter dated \Zth August, in the margin 



be forwarded to 



No. 14, 1844. the Committee of 



the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society and 

 Auxiliary o'f the 

 Royal Asiatic So- 

 ciety with refer- 

 ence to their Se- 

 cretary's commu- 

 nication of the 

 lOthNov.1843, and 

 also to the Reve- 



2 to 5 Proposed nue Board in the 



formation of a Mu- Department of 



seum of Economic IQ. The formation of a Museum Public Workg,the 

 Geology at the Military Board 



Presidency and of of Economic Geolo^V at the Presiden- and the President 

 local Museums of and Governors of 



the same liind in cv to be a permanent charge on Go- the Madras Uni- 

 the interior. '' ^ i , i x • versity (with copy 



From Maj. Gen. vernment was ursred by the liiterary of the letter from 



W. Cullen, dated „ . , , .r. *^ ^ , . . the Secretary to 



5th Dec. 1843, with bociety aud Auxiliary of the Asiatic the Literary Socie- 

 enelosure. ™ . ty dated 10th No- 



bociety. vember, ]843,)who 



will be pleased in 

 concert with one 



11. Major General Cullen proposes that there s^Ich^Tleas^u^e^as 

 should be formed " a small Museum for each expedi^nTfoJX 

 - CoUectorate, and for which a room might pro- SXiMuse?/ma1 

 " bably be set apart in each Cutcherry or Court %ndlr'*^thT^au- 

 *' House, the Museum to be under the charsre of t^ority here con- 



' . o veyedtheGovern- 



" the Collector (assisted by the Engineer and Medical ment win be pre- 



^ ./ cj pared to sanction 



Officer,) and who could also probably afford a such moderate 



*■ charges as may be 



*' servant to look after it." necessary to cany 



out this object. 



Mr. Chamier has recorded a Minute recommending this plan as 

 greatly preferable to that of a general Museum at the Presidency. 



12. We are not however satisfied that the expense involved 

 would be as small as Major General Cullen supposes, and that 

 persons qualified by knowledge and tastes for rendering them use- 

 ful, would be found in every locality. The mere formation of local 



