170 Proceedings. [No. £9, new series. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society, and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 held at the Club House, on Thursday, the 9th June 1859, at 

 6 o'clock p. m. 



Present. 



J. T. Wheeler, Esq. 



W. Hudleston, Esq., Secretary. 



The Hon. Walter Elliot, Esq., 



Chairman. 

 G. F. Fullertcn, Esq. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to the 9th June 1859. 



Resolved, that the above Statement is satisfactory and be passed. 



On the recommendation of the Honorable the President. 



Resolved, that Dr. Roust, Principal of the College of St.'Augus- 

 tine, Canterbury, and Messrs. Hermann and Robert Schlagin- 

 tweit of Berlin, be elected Corresponding Members of the Society. 



Mr. Elliot read extract of a letter from Dr. Jameson, Superin- 

 tendent of Botanical Gardens at Saharunpore, giving an account 

 of the progress of the culture of Tea in the Himalayas. Dr. Jame- 

 son states, that " Tea Cultivation in the North West Provinces 

 and Kohistan of the Punjab is now a great fact, and must now 

 proceed with vigour, as numbers of Natives have commenced this 

 cultivation, and in a letter received a few days ago from Sir G. 

 Clerk, who takes great interest in its progress, he states that the 

 Home Government intend to give it their utmost support, this 

 season the out-turn will be lbs. 100,000 of tea, and in addition I 

 have planted upwards of five millions of seedling plants within 

 the last 8 months ; to private parties I have also given this season 

 upwards of 1J millions of plants and 100,000 lbs. of seeds. In a 

 few years, therefore, I doubt not that the teas of the N. W. Pro- 

 vinces will be exported in vast quantity and form an important 

 export trade, and ere long become one of the staples of this part 

 of India." 



Resolved, that " Memoirs of Cochin and Travancore" by Colo- 

 nel Horsley, and a " series of Meteorological Observations taken 

 at Allepy by Captain Crawford, from 23d April to 6th May last," 

 communicated by the Honorable the President, be transferred to 

 the Sub Committee on Papers, together with " Notes on various 

 subjects" by Lieut. H. P. Hawkes similarly communicated. 



