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East in ancient times, their investigations into the yet remaining monuments of early and extensive civilization, may here be placed in contrast with the labours of those who prefer to trace the progress of improvement in the present day, or suggest the means by which that improvement may be accelerated and enlarged; the deductions of philosophy may be compared with the results of experience, and the theories of the speculative produce schemes of practical utility. 4. But while the Council is thus endeavouring to give greater extension to the operations of the Society, and to increase its claims to public approbation and support in its path of usefulness, it feels that its ability to do so must depend entirely on its securing the earnest and effective co-operation of the members, and more particularly of those resident in the East. I am therefore desired to request that you will have the goodness to give all possible publicity to the subject of this letter, not only among the European residents in your Presidency, but also among such classes of the native community as may in your judgment be deemed likely to take an interest in the subject, and likewise avail yourselves of all convenient opportunities of urging such persons to communicate whatever information they may possess or be able to acquire relative to the philosophy, the metaphysics, the science, the history, the arts, the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the countries in which they reside.

5. In conclusion I have only to express the confidence with which the Council relies on the tried and acknowledged zeal invariably displayed by the Members of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society in the promotion of knowledge, that the peculiar facilities for aiding the exertions of the Society which are placed in their power by circumstances and situation, will be steadily applied in furtherance of that object, assuring them that in so doing they cannot fail to secure the grateful acknowledgements of the Society and the cordial approbation of all who duly value the welfare of our Empire in the East.

I have the honor to be,

Gentlemen,

Your most obedient

Very humble Servant,
H. HARKNESS,

Secretary.

Copy of the Articles of the Regulations of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland respecting the publication of its Transactions.

Article LXII.-Communications and Papers, read to the Society, shall, from time to time, be published under the title of Transactions of the Royal Asictic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Article LXIII.-All Resident and Non-resident Members of the Society are entitled to receive, gratis, those parts or volumes of the Transactions published subsequently to their election; and to purchase, at an established reduced price, such volumes or parts as may have been previously published.

Article LXIV.The Council are authorized to present copies of the Transactions to learned Societies and distinguished individuals. Article LXV.- Every original communication presented to the Society becomes its property; but the author or contributor, may republish it twelve months after its publication by the Society. The Council may publish any original communication presented to the Society, in any way, and at any time judged proper, but if printed in the Society's Transactions twenty-five copies of it shall be presented to the author or contributor, when the volume or part in which it is inserted is published. Such papers as the Council may not see fit to publish may, with its permission, be returned to the author, upon the condition that if it be published by him a printed copy of it shall be presented to the Society.

(A true Copy.)

H. HARKNESS,

Secretary.

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