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scholar and others are required to do. Sanskrit scholars in Ben- 
gal are exceedingly averse to sell MSS., but when opportunities do 
offer I never fail to take advantage of them, and purchase for 
Government whatever, in my humble opinion, appears valuable. 
The 3rd para., without directly charging me with having cribbed 
from Max Miiller’s ancient Sanskrit Literature, insinuates that I 
have done so. I cannot but take this as unfair. Ihave given the 
name of Max Miiller whenever I have quoted from him, and shall 
be glad to be shewn an instance to the contrary. 
The 4th para. repeats the first charge of the 2nd, and therefore 
calls for no further remark. 
The 5th contains a suggestion, but the published portion of the 
** Notices” should have shewn to Mr. Chalmers that it was uncalled 
for. Ihave quoted from Aufrecht’s Catalogi codicum manuscripto- 
rum Bibliothecae Bodleianae, and from Weber’s Verzeichniss der 
Sanskrit-Handschriften, the only Berlin catalogue accessible to me. 
Mr. Chalmers seems not to be aware that no catalogue of the India 
House Library has yet been published, and therefore it is impos- 
sible to quote from it. I have lately got a MS. list of the contents 
of that Library through the kindness of Dr. Rost, and intend to 
notice it when necessary. 
The real cause of the misunderstanding lies in the expectation 
that the Notices should serve the purpose of a catalogue raissoné 
which they do not profess to do, nor were they originally re- 
quired to do. The Society undertook to supply only lists in the 
Nagari character of MSS. still extant in the country, with brief 
notes of their contents, in order that future scholars in Europe may 
be enabled to compile a complete catalogue of Sanskrit literature, 
and not to supply that desideratum now. The Government is of 
opinion that the time has not yet come for a comprehensive scheme 
of this kind, and if this be borne in mind, the ‘‘ Notices’ will not 
be found to be so defective as they are said to be. 
The President placed on the table diagrams exhibiting the 
diurnal oscillations of the barometer observed by him at Dal- 
housie during a portion of last October. He did so, not on account 
of the merits of these curves, for they were only rough approxima- 
