364 Proceedings. [No. 10, new series. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society, and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held at the 

 Club House, on Thursday, the 10th November 1859, at half %>a$t 

 6 o'clock, p. m. 



PRESENT. 



The Hon. W. Elliot, Esq. — Chairman. 



E. Maltby, Esq. 



W. Hudleston, Esq., Secretary. 



G. F. Fullerton, Esq. 

 Major W, J. Wilson, 

 J. T. Wheeler, Esq. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds, prepared up to 10th November 1859. 



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



Read Letter from General Cullen forwarding Correspondence of 

 the late Mr. Adolphe Schlagintweit. 



Resolved, that the papers in question be published in the Pro- 

 ceedings, but the Committee doubt whether they will aid the en- 

 quiries now proceeding in Calcutta. 



Read Proceedings of the Madras Government containing letter 

 from Mr. Oldham on a piece of Rock Salt found at Kircumbady, 

 with reference to the Secretary's letter of the 17th September last, 

 to the address of the Chief Secretary. 



Ordered to be recorded. 



The Secretary pointed out to the Meeting the necessity of pro- 

 curing a new Press for the Book Binding Department, at a cost of 

 about 11 or 12 Rupees. 



Resolved, that the Secretary be authorised to procure the neces- 

 sary Press. 



Read letter from Sir C. Trevelyan to the Secretary, proposing to 

 continue the examination of the Budhist remains at Amaravati, 

 and requesting the co-operation of the Society. 



Mr. Elliot brings to notice that a curious Paper on the subject of 

 Amaravati was published about 1818 or 1819 in the Asiatic Annual 

 Register by Colonel Mackenzie who first brought these interesting 

 remains to notice. By an Extract from his Journal published in 

 the Asiatic Researches, Vol. IX, Page 273, it appears that he visited 

 the place in 1797, and found the whole a mass of ruins. There is 

 good reason to believe that the structure had existed in tolerable 

 preservation to a period shortly antecedent to the Colonel's arrival. 



