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Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Rev. J. Edkins to send a copy of the report of the Anniversary Meeting from which it will be seen that the request brought by him from Shanghai has been complied with. Edkins is sent recent copies of the Society's journals for distribution to members of the North China Branch of the Society. (Found in page 261)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Rev. R. Payne Smith, Pembroke College, Oxford, to acknowledge his retirement from the Society but his subscription has been 'banked' and it therefore cannot be returned to him. He is entitled to 'privileges of membership until end of 1858'. (Found on page 261)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Rev. R.E. Tyrwhitt in which Tyrwhitt is informed that the Council wish to read to its members the second division of his paper on Assyrian Chronology, but that it is too long and the Council request that he condenses it. The third division of his paper has not yet been fully examined and the subject of printing the whole work will be also taken into consideration. The Paper was read 21 April 1860. (Found on page 275)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Rev Robert Caldwell to inform Caldwell that he has been elected an Honorary member of the Society for his work entitled 'Dravidian Grammar'. His official Diploma will follow. (Found on page 230)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Rev Robert Caldwell to inform him that his Diploma as an Honorary member has been sent. (Found on page 231)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Rev. Solomon Caesar Malan to inform that the Rev. Youille of Glasgow has offered the Society 45 books valued at £50 in Mongol, Manchu and Tibetan. The Society has no funds for such a purpose and it is has been suggested that Malan might be interested. If this is so, a list will be copied for him. (Found on page 266)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Ross Donnelly Mangles, Chairman, East India Company, to inform that as Chairman of the East India Company, he is ex-officio a Vice-Patron of the Society and it is hoped that he will accept the office. (Found on page 245)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Secretary, Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Calcutta, in response to the request that the Agricultural and Horticultural Society should not have to pay for some early Transactions of the Society. This is agreed and £4-10-0 is returned to the publishers, Messrs Smith & Elder, being £6 less a 25 Per cent commission. (Found on page 265)

Letter from Edwin Norris to Sir Emerson Tennent, President of Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon, to thank for sending a copy of Mr Wylie's 'Chinese translation of Euclid' and for his paper on ancient 'Neu-Chih Inscriptions'. These contributions to philology are likely to be of interest to students of the languages of Eastern Asia. (Found on page 271)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke to inform that a John Muir has requested a reprint of the Essays of Thomas Henry Colebrooke, founder of the Royal Asiatic Society, to be published by Messrs. Williams and Norgate. Sir T.E. Colebrooke is asked if he has any objections. (Found on page 236)