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ed its application more fully, so as to obtain larger and finer pic- 

 tures as well as of having extended it to more difficult objects, 

 and particularly to reptiles and animals, which seems not to have 

 been attempted before. 



The Committee beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of 

 the following books and papers : 



From the Chief Secretary. 



1. Geological Papers on Western India. 



2. Atlas do. do. 



3. Selections from the Records of the Madras Government, 

 Railway Correspondence. 



4. do do India No. 23 on Tea Cultivation. 



5. Indian Journal of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 4. 



6. Cyclopaedia of India, Parts 8, 9 and 10. 



7. Description of the method of catching Wild Elephants in 

 the Coimbatore District, by Captain D. Hamilton. 



From the Government of Bombay. 



8. BombayMagnetical and Meteorological Observations for 1856. 



From the Authors. 



9. Note sur Les Rubaiyat de Omar Khaiyam par M. Garcin 

 de Tassy. 



10. La poesie Philosophique et Religieuse chez les Persans, 

 d'apres le man tic uttair, ou Le Langage des Oiseaux de Farid 

 Uddin Attar par M. Garcin de Tassy. 



The Managing Committee of th& Madras Literary Society and 

 Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, \0th December, 1857. 



Mr. Elliot read a notice of the Gold Coins stated at page 114, 

 Volume I, new series of the Journal, to have been found at Madura. 

 They comprise 49 specimens, of which 28 have been bought for 

 the Government Central Museum, 20 were purchased by a Gentle- 

 man at Madura and sent home, and a single one was obtained by 

 Mr. Elliot himself. The whole are gold pieces of the kind called 

 aurei, belonging to the times of the earlier Csesars from Tiberius to 

 Domitian, as follows ; 



