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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 to Dr Steele, Assistant Secretary, Royal Dublin Society, to agree to an exchange of publications. (Found on page 262)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to James Cosmo Melvill, Assistant Secretary, Council of India, to ask for the 200 guineas which used to be paid by 'late East India Company' to promote the objects of the Society. (Found on page 263)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lord Stanley to enclose a memorandum addressed to First Lord of Treasury. The good offices of Lord Stanley, as Vice Patron, are requested to help the Society, made difficult because of the limited means of Society, to 'pay a large outlay for house rents'. (Found on page 263)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Lord Stanley to inform that he has been unanimously elected as a resident Member of the Society. He is sent details of meetings as well as details of dues owed by members on election. (Found on page 264)

Letter from William Neal, Collector, to Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot in response to his suggestion that 'temporary residence on continent' enables him to claim non-resident membership. He is asked to reconsider this claim for remission which will be considered by Council. (Found on page 264)

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, 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 A. Panizzi, Chief Librarian, British Museum, in which Norris explains that the Royal Asiatic Society has been informed that a report has been produced for the British Museum on the cities of Southern Chaldaea. The Society would like a copy of this report to read at a meeting and to publish in its Journal. (Found on page 266)

Letter from Edwin Norris, Secretary, to Professor Gustavus Fluegel to inform that he has been elected an Honorary Member, having been a Corresponding member. This Honorary membership has been conferred because of his work as an Orientalist generally but particularly for his translation and editing of the Lexicon of Haja Khalfa. A diploma will be sent in due course. (Found on page 267)