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he said it was almost incomprehensible, how the blunder came to be 
committed, not only in the Secretariat to the Government of India, 
but also by a scholar like Mr. Chalmers, to whose very positive 
but mistaken observations the President referred. These gentle- 
men must have penned their strictures without having read the 
Sanskrit, and yet it was in Sanskrit, that the Government letter 
directed the principal matter of the lists, inclusive of the very 
matter in question, to be published. 
No. 395. 
Asiatic Society’s Rooms, Calcutta, 27th June, 1870. 
From F. Svourozxa, Esa. Pu. D., 
Honorary Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
To the Hon’stE Asuitey Even, 
Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 
Sm,—Referring to the correspondence, noted at margin, regard- 
No. 5657 dated 28rd Nov., 1868 Govt. of Bengal, 128 *e conservation of 
» 309 ,, 1st May, 1869 As. Soc és records and purchases of 
Ee ee Sanskrit Manuscripts in 
native libraries, I am desired by the Council of the Asiatic Socie- 
ty to forward a copy of Babu Rajendralala Mitra’s report on the 
subject, explaining the operations which have been instituted by 
the Society for that purpose, in accordance with the orders of the 
Government of Bengal. 
A specimen copy of No. 1 of the ‘“ Notices of Sanskrit MSS.” is 
herewith enclosed, as well as copies of the lists noted in para. 8th 
of Babu Rajendralala Mitra’s letter. 
The slight alteration in the arrangement of printing has also been 
explained by Babu Rajendralala Mitra, and the Council of the 
Society hopes that this change will be advantageous. 
The expenses incurred by the Society for the above object of 
collecting MSS. during the latter half of the official year, 1869 and 
1870, are detailed in the accompanying bill, and in submitting the 
same for the consideration of the Government of Bengal, I am 
desired by the Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal to re- 
quest that the Society may be sanctioned to draw a quarterly or 
half yearly advance, equal to one fourth or one half of the annual 
grant sanctioned for the purpose. A detailed statement of the half 
