PROCEEDINGS. 
riEST MEETING. 
The first ordinary meeting of the Madras Literary Society 
and Auxiliary of the Eoyal Asiatic Society for the Ses- 
sions 1887-88, was held on Thursday, the 13th October, 
at 5-30 P.M., in the Heading Eoom of the Old College, 
Nungumbaukum ; the Venerable Archdeacon Brown in 
the chair. 
The following papers were read : — 
1. Hints to Coin-Collectors in Southern India, Part II., 
by Captain E. H. Campbell Tufnell, m.s.c. 
*2. On the Etymology of certain Mythological Names, by 
Mr. M. Sesbagiri Sastri, m.a. 
3. On certain unpublished Coins of the Pandyans, by the 
Eev. James E. Tracy, m.a. 
Mr. Edgar Thurston exhibited some Zoological speci- 
mens from the Gulf of Manaar. 
SECOND MEETING. 
The second ordinary meeting of the society, for the 
reading of papers, was held on Thursday, the 17th ISTovem- 
ber, at 5-30 p.m., in the Eeading Eoom of the Old College, 
Nungumbaukum ; H. S. Thomas, Esq., m.c.s., in the chair. 
The following papers were read : — 
1. Hints to Coin-Collectors in Southern India (conclusion), 
by Captain E, H. Campbell Tufnell, m.s.c. 
