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Madras Literary Society

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Founding of the Society

Year Authority / Notes
1812

According to Otness (1998), the society was founded in 1812 as the Madras Literary Society. In 1830 it became an Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , and has generally been known as the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society.

At some point after its journal Madras Journal of Literature and Science ceased publication in 1894, the Society appears to have given up its scholarly activities and restricted itself to functioning as a lending library.

Seat of the Society

City Authority / Notes
Madras
India

This location is supported by the name of the Society.

Name of the Society

Dates Name Authority
1812 - 1830 Madras Literary Society

Otness (1998) gives the start date of this name.

Otness (1998) gives the end date of this name.
1827 Literary Society of Madras

Its publications establish this name for 1827.
1830 - Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society

Otness (1998) gives the start date of this name.

Journals of the Society

Years Full Journal Title Abbrev.
1827 (pt.1.)

A

Transactions of the Literary Society of Madras
[Calif. Univ. cat.]		 Trans. Lit. Soc. Madras
J. Am. Oriental Soc., Vol. 6, (1858 - 1860), p.318 cites 1827.
Transactions of the Lit. Soc. of Madras
Bull. School Orient. Afr. Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4 (1942), p.990 cites an 1842 German translation (published in ZDKM) of an article by C. M. Whish in the Transactions.
1833, Oct. - 1851, June (v.1 - v.17 [no.1 - 39]);
1856, Oct. - 1861 (n.s., v.1 - 6 [no. 1-12]);
1864, July - 1866 ,Oct. (ser.3, no.1-2);
1878 - 1881;
1886 - 1894

B

Madras Journal of Literature and Science

A record in the Harvard Univ. cat. indicates that this journal was published by the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The record also indicates that this title was suspended from Nov. 1866 - 1877, and from 1882 - 1885, and that its title for v.1 was Journal of Literature and Science.

Indexed RSLC
[Harvard Univ. cat.]		 Mad. Jour. Lit.
J. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., Vol. 1, No. 2 (1869), p.127 cites xiii.]
Madr. Jour.
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. 33, No. 5 (May, 1906), p.318 cites 5, 1837.
Madr. Jour. Lit. and Sci.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. 6, (1852 - 1853), an unnumbered page in Halcyonidae article by Cassin cites 1844.
Madr. Jour. Sci.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden, Vol. 11, No. 2/3 (Apr. - Sep., 1924), p.206 cites 4, 1836.
Madr. Journ.
Bull. Misc. Info. (Roy. Gard. Kew), Vol. 1922, No. 4 (1922), p.137 cites i (1857).
Madr. Journ. Lit. Sci.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. 86, (1934), p.233 cites XIII (1844).
Madr. Journ. Sci.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden, Vol. 45, No. 2 (May, 1958), p.98 cites 5, 1837.
Madras J. Lit. & Sci.
Taxon, Vol. 26, No. 5/6 (Nov., 1977), p.537 cites n.s. II, 1861.
Madras J. Lit. and Sci.
Notes Rec. Roy. Soc., Vol. 34, No. 2 (Mar., 1980), p.216 cites 12 (1840).
Madras J. Lit. Sc.
Kew Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 2 (1982), p.343 cites 7 (1838).
Madras J. Lit. Sci.
Phil. Trans., B Vol. 320, No. 1197 (Jul. 13, 1988), p.130 cites ser. 3, 1 (1864).
Madras J. Litt. Sci.
J. N.Y. Entomol. Soc., Vol. 99, No. 2 (Apr., 1991), p.196 cites 17, 1852.
Madras J. of Lit. and Sci.
Am. Naturalist, Vol. 15, No. 7 (Jul., 1881), p.584 cites 1879.
Madras J. of Literature
Am. Naturalist, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Mar., 1880), p.222 cites I, circa 1880.
Madras J. of Literature and Science
J. Am. Oriental Soc., Vol. 87, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1967), p.247 cites 12 (1844) and 13 (1845).
Madras J. Sci.
Brittonia, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1997), p.255 cites 5, 1837.
Madras Jl.
RSLC, v.12, p.xxi; v.13, p.lvi.
Madras Jnl. Lit. Science
J. Roy. Anthrop. Instit., Vol. 54 (Jul. - Dec., 1924), p.336 cites XXV.
Madras Jour.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. 6, (1852 - 1853), an unnumbered page in Hirundiniae article by Cassin cites 1841.
Madras Jour. Lit.
J. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., Vol. 1, No. 2 (1869), p.127 cites vii.
Madras Jour. Lit. and Sci.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. 4, (1848 - 1849), an unnumbered page in Strigidae article by Cassin cites 1839.
Madras Jour. Lit. Sci.
Auk, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Oct., 1946), p.553 cites 10, 1839.
Madras Jour. Litt. and Sci.
Copeia, Vol. 1956, No. 3 (Aug. 29, 1956), p.194 cites 15, 1849.
Madras, Jour. Litt. Sci.
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., Vol. 66, No. 2 (Dec., 1930), p.66 cites Vol. 17 (1851).
Madras Jour. of Letter and Sciences
T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1904), p.259 cites XXI, 1859 (N. S. V).
Madras Journ.
Auk, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan., 1902), p.92 cites V, 1837.
Madras Journ.
RSLC, v.1, p.xlviii.
Madras Journ. Lit. and Sci.
Bull. Misc. Info. (Roy. Gard. Kew), Vol. 1928, No. 3 (1928), p.106 cites Ser. 3, vol. I (1864).
Madras Journ. Lit. Sc.
Kew Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 4 (1980), p.798 cites III, 1 (1864).
Madras Journ. Lit. Sci.
Auk, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Apr., 1950), p.199 cites 13, "Dec. 1844" = 1845.
Madras Journ. of sci.
Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux., Vol. 2, (1909), p.381 cites V (1837).
Madras Journ. Sci.
Kew Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1969), p.57 cites n.s. 6 (1861).
Madras Journal, Lit. and Sc.
J. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., Vol. 1, No. 2 (1869), p.114 cites vol. xx.
Madras Journal of Lit. & Science
J. Hist. Biol., Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), p.145 cites Vol IV 1835 to Vo. XII 1846.
Madras Literary Society's Journal
Trans. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., Vol. 7 (1869), p.269 cites 1838.

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