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Proceedings. [No. 10, new series. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Ma.dr.as Lite- 

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

 at the Club House on Thursday, the 12th January, 1860, at half 

 past 6 o'clock p. m. 



PRESENT. 



G. F. Fullerton, Esq. W. Hudleston, Esq., Secretary. 



J. T. Wheeler, Esq. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to the 11th Instant. 



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



Read letter from J. G. Thomson, Esq., to the Chief Secretary, 

 forwarding a Copy of a complete Phonetic Alphabet, and Orders of 

 Government thereon. 



Ordered to be recorded — several Copies of the Pamphlet having 

 been already received direct from Mr. Thompson. 



Read letter from the Rev. James Kearns, forwarding a Packet 

 of Papers containing Inscriptions in ancient Tamil, for presentation 

 to the Society. 



Ordered to be acknowledged with thanks, and transferred to the 

 Sub-Committee on Papers. 



Read three letters from General Cullen relative to Inscriptions 

 and Specimens of Gold Sand forwarded, and one letter with Me- 

 moranda regarding Hail Storms on the Malabar Coast. 



Ordered to be acknowledged with thanks. The Inscriptions to 

 be transferred to the Sub-Committee, and the Mineral Specimens, 

 with Copy of the Letter relating to them, to be forwarded to the 

 Officer in charge of the Museum. 



Read letter from T. Oldham, Esq., Superintendent of the Geo- 

 logical Survey, acknowledging the receipt of No. 8, New Series of 

 the Society's Journal. 



Ordered to be recorded. 



Read letter from Walter Elliot, Esq., presenting to the Society 

 twelve Numbers of the Journal of the Royal Society and two Copies 

 of a Palceographic Alphabet. 



The Secretary intimates to the Meeting that the Hon. Sir C. Tre- 

 velyan has presented to the Society the following Works. 



Memoires de la Societe Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, 2 vols, 

 from 1840 to 1849, 



