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yearly expenses will be prepared and submitted to the Government 
of Bengal, if desired. 
Babu Réjendraléla Mitra expects to publish annually 3 or 4 
numbers of the Notices of Sanskrit MSS. ; of No. 1 of these Notices 
150 copies have been printed, and they are now at the disposal 
of the Government of Bengal. 
With regard to the distribution of the Notices, I am desired by 
the Council of the Asiatic Society to submit a list* of names to 
whom copies could be sent, for the favourable consideration of the 
Government of Bengal. The spare copies of these ‘ Notices,” the 
Council would suggest, may be sold to the public at one Rupee 
per number. 
From Ba’su Ra’senprata’tA Mirra, 
To the Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Dated, Chitpur, 24th May, 1870. 
_Sm,—I have the honor.to submit the following report on the 
operations carried on during the last official year for collecting in- 
formation regarding Sanskrit MSS. extant in native libraries. 
2. The final orders of Government on the subject were received 
in May 1869. I happened to be unwell at the time, and nothing 
was done until my arrival at Benares in the middle of June following, 
when I commenced to collect lists of such rare MSS., as were avail- 
able in that city. Although some ultra orthodox pandits were 
averse to allow their collection to be examined and analysed for the 
information of Europeans, I had no difficulty in inducing several 
persons to allow me access to their Libraries for the purpose of 
taking notes and copies of such MSS. asI liked, and obtained 
much valuable information from some of the professors of the local 
Sanskrit College. Two native gentlemen of the city, Babu Haris- 
chandra and Sitalprasad, very obligingly placed the whole of their 
collections, each containing upwards of two thousand works, at my 
disposal, and Pandit Vinayaka S‘astri brought me a few rare MSS. 
of the Kalpa sutras and of the Sikshaés. The Raéjguru of Benares 
and several other pandits also offered me assistance, and I soon had 
a total of upwards of five thousand MSS. at my disposal. Owing, 
however, to the delicate state of my health at the time, and my 
* This list is omitted in the present communication, 
