PKOCEEDINGS- 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Liter aet 

 Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society held at the 

 Club house on Thursday the Wth April 1861, at half past 6 

 o'clock P. M. 



Present. 



The Hon. E. Maltby, Chairman. 

 Major Genl. McCleverty. 

 R. P. Harrison, Esq. 

 Major W. J. Wilson. 

 R. S. Ellis, Esq. c. B. 



J. Talboys Wheeler, Esq. 

 J. D. Mayne, Esq. 

 [ Capt. T. Evans Bell, Honorary 

 Secretary. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to 11th April 1861. 



Here enter Statement. 



Resolved that the above Statement is satisfactory and be passed. 

 Read Letter from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of Volume V, new series, of the journal. 



Ordered to be recorded. 



Read Letter from the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of Volumes from I to V. new series of the 

 Journal. Ordered to be recorded. 



Read Letter from H, A. Brett, Esq., to J. D. Sim, Esq., for- 

 warding a Statement showing the places where the Earthquake 

 was felt on the 4th March 1861, in the District of Salem. 



Ordered to be transferred to the Sub Committee of Papers for 

 publication in the forthcoming Number of the Journal. 

 E. Maltby, T. Evans Bell, 



Chairman. Honorary Secretary, 



