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to consider tlio necessity for a critical edition of the text of the Maha- 

 bharata. Resolved : 



That a competent scholar should be sent to India to collect the 

 necessary MSS., and that Dr. Liiders should be selected for this work. 

 The cost of this would be about 500, and the time required one year. 

 Professor Bloom field was authorised to represent this committee in 

 America for the purpose of obtaining a contribution towards this 

 amount. 



No. 9. At the XHIth International Congress of Orientalists held 

 at Hamburg in September, 1902, Count F. L. Pulle, Professor of Sans- 

 krit in the University of Bologna, having exhibited and explained in the 

 Indian Section the highly interesting -historical series of cartographic 

 representations of India collected by him with infinite care and research, 

 the Section expresses an earnest hope that means may be found to 

 make this important set of maps generally accessible by publication to 

 those interested in geographical and cartographic research. 



No. 12. (Translation). In consideration of the circumstance that 

 the same manuscript is often copied by several scholars, and published 

 by them without knowledge of the work done upon it by others, the 

 Chief Librarians of the University Libraries, College Libraries, and the 

 British Museum are requested to have a record kept of each person who 

 makes a copy of a MS., and to give information to any later copyist, on 

 his application, as to whether, and by whom, a MS. has previously been 

 copied. 



No. 14. (Translation). On the 8th September, 1902, those members 

 of the Committee of the " International Association for the Exploration 

 of Central and Eastern Asia " appointed at the Xllth International 

 Congress of Orientalists in Rome who were present at the Xlllth 

 Congress in Hamburg assembled under the presidency of Dr. W. von 

 Radloff (St. Petersburg). A draft of the statutes of the proposed 

 association, prepared by scholars at St. Petersburg, was submitted for 

 discussion, and settled paragraph by paragraph in French by the 

 meeting. 



The President having informed the meeting that he was authorised 

 to state, on the part of the Russian Government, that that Government 

 intended to constitute a Russian Committee of the Association, under 

 the Jurisdiction of the Imperial Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the meet- 

 ing resolved : — 



(1) To confirm the statutes of " the Association for the Historical, 

 "Archaeological, Linguistic, and Ethnographic Exploration of 

 " Central and Eastern Asia" ; 



(2) To entrust the members chosen at Rome, MM. W, von Radloff 



