Letters of Sir Witrr4am Jones to Samurt Daris, Esq. 27 
your company at dinner with the Asiatick Society, whose anniversary 
meeting is fixed for that day. Whenever you come, have the goodness to 
remember the flowers of the Tamdla, and to bring with you the Hindu 
constellations, which I sent you from Crishn-nagar, as I have received another 
Sanscrit work with 84 drawings, &c. by which I shall be able to correct 
the errours in the former. I am too busy to add more than that I am, my 
dear Sir, yours ever truly 
W. JONES. 
XXXV. 
15 Febr. 
My dear Sir, 
Your letter and its accompanyments (the most precious of which is your 
own MS.) arrive at sunset, when I can hardly see what I write. To- 
morrow I will examine your book with great attention: I have rec? all the 
Constellations from Benares, in number 104, including some single stars ; 
but, as I find among them not only Antinous but even the twelve asterisms 
of Americus Vespucius, it is clear that part of the Sanscrit is very modern, 
and was drawn up probably by order of Jayasinh, from some European 
planisphere. I will propose your health on Thursday in a bumper of Shiraz: 
when you come to Calcutta, pray bring the Tamala flowers; but yourself 
will be the most welcome object to, my dear Sir, 
Your ever faithful 
W. JONES. 
In the Sanscrit book which I have received from Wilford’s Brahmen, the 
longitude of Spica is = 19°, which looks as if a copy of Harris’s Chart had 
been shown by missionaries or other Europeans to very modern Pandits. 
XXXVI. 
Calcutta 1 March 1794 
I have had leisure, my dear Sir, during a very short vacation to peruse 
your book on the Indian constellations, and I perused it with great delight. 
Your drawings are excellent, and shall be well engraved, if you can find 
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