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to become a Member of the Managing Committee, to complete the 

 number as laid down in Rule VI. of the Society's Regulations. 



The following Gentlemen were elected as the Managing Com- 

 mittee for the current year. 



Managing Committee. 



Major W. J. Wilson, 

 Mr. T. Pycroft, 

 Colonel F. A. Reid, c. b. 

 Lieut. CoLT.T. Pears, c. b. 

 Lieut. Col. F. C. Cotton, 

 Mr. G. H. Ellis, 



Mr. W. U. Arbuthnot, 



Major E. Lawford, 



Mr. H. F. C. Cleghorn, m. d, 



Mr. A. J. Arbuthnot, 



Mr. R. Burgass, 



Mr. J. W. Breeks, Secretary. 



The thanks of the Meeting were voted to the Chairman, and the 

 Meeting closed. 



The Managing Committee of the Mae-has Litebary Society and 

 Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Thursday Evening, March 

 12,1857. 



On the motion of Mr. W. Arbuthnot, seconded by Colonel Cot- 

 ton, the Hon'ble W. Elliot, was elected Chairman of the Commit- 

 tee for the current year. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds, and brought to the notice of the 

 Committee the urgent necessity which existed for a complete Ca- 

 talogue of the Society's Books by embodying the Supplemental 

 Catalogues for 1852-53 and 55 with the old Catalogue, and clas- 

 sifying each work under its appropriate head. 



Resolved that the state of the Society's Funds is satisfactory, 

 and that a new Catalogue of the Society's books be printed as 

 soon as possible, containing every work received into the Library 

 up to January 1857. 



Extracts of a letter from Mr. Thwaites, Superintendent of the 

 Koyal Botanic Garden of Paradenia in Ceylon to Dr. Cleghorn 

 were read, in which he expressed his readiness to permit the descrip- 



