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use and transmission to the Government of India, the remaining 
twenty copies being sold to the public at 1 Re. per copy. 
No. 2734. 
From HH. 8. Bravon, Esa., 
Offg. Under-Secy. to the Govt. of Bengal, 
To the Honorary Secy. to the Asiatie Society of Bengal. 
Fort William, the 19th September 1870. 
Sir,—With reference to my letter No. 2017, dated the 11th July 
1870, the subject of the discovery and preservation of records of an- 
cient Sanskrit literature, I am directed to forward for the information | 
* No. 3963 dated tho Of your Society the accompanying copy of 
29th ultimo, and enclo- a letter* from the Government of India 
ae in the Home Department, containing the 
views of His Excellency the Governor-General in Council on the 
operations of the Society in this undertaking. 
2. It will be seen that the catalogues [‘‘ Notices of Sanskrit 
manuscripts” ] are considered incomplete in some points, which 
tend materially to lessen their value and usefulness, especially to 
Kuropean scholars, and the Government of India accordingly de- 
sire the insertion in the ‘‘ Notices’ of the names and addresses of 
the persons to whom the manuscripts belong, the places in which 
they are deposited, the number of pages in each manuscript, the 
number of lines in each page, and the peculiarities of the manu- 
scripts, in order to afford a ready means of identifying them here- 
after. The directions can be easily followed in all ‘‘ Notices” that 
may be published hereafter, but this is of course not possible in 
the volume already printed. I am, however, to suggest that effect 
might be given to the wishes of the Government of India by adding 
a supplementary list of the manuscripts drawn up numerically 
with the additional information. 
3. The Government of India, it will be noticed, desire to add} 
+ The Cambridge Uni- Sixteen names to the list of persons and 
versity has already been §ocieties to whom copies of the ‘ Notices” 
included, vide paragraph 3 ; 
of my letter above quoted. are to be circulated, and point out several 
typographical errors in the names in the list of the Society. 
4. In conclusion I am to invite attention to the suggestion made 
by the Government of India in paragraph 5 of their letter regarding 
tho use of better paper and type in printing the “ Notices.” 
