Letters of Sir Wit14m Jones to Saver Darts, Esq. 29 
XXXVII. 
My dear Sir, 24 March* [1794] Calcutta. 
Asa week only of March remains, I am not without hopes that you will 
pass next Sunday with me at my farm ; and we will then talk of Jayasinh 
and his achievements : I will only say now, that the result of my inquiries 
corresponds exactly with your account of his death. I have given you a 
great deal of trouble about the Tamdla ; but the leaves, flowers, and fruit, 
which you so obligingly sent, are those of the Dép’hal, a very different 
plant, resembling the Tamdla only in the form and colour of the leaves: | 
am equally thankful for the specimen, as it is a new species of Hypericum. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your faithful and aff** 
W. JONES. 
The following Letter, with its accompaniment, is attached to the preceding series ; 
and as it relates to the principal subject therein referred to, viz. the Astro- 
nomy of the Hindus, it will doubtless not be considered improper to annex 
it here. 
From the Right Hon” Sir Joseph Banks, K.C.B., Pr.R.S., 
to Samuel Davis, Esq. 
Soho Square, 
Sir, March 18, 1790. 
The paper you did me the honor to enclose to me was received with 
much interest by the Fellows of the Royal Society to whom I communicated 
it, which were those whose studies had been more particularly directed to 
the History of Astronomy. I enclose to you, Sir, the Remarks made upon it 
by Mr. Cavendish, who we here consider among the most able men we have. 
He expressed, as indeed all who saw it did, the strongest wish that you would 
continue to direct your application towards a study, in which you have the 
opportunity of illustrating so-very essentially the ancient history of a 
science, possibly the most interesting of any in the whole number : and in 
case any thing should happen which prevented you from publishing it in 
the Asiatic Transactions, it seemed the wish of every one that it might be 
published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society here ; 
where, Sir, lam confident you would be received a member, if your ambition 
led you to wish for that distinction. 
* Sir William Jones’s death occurred April 27, 1794. 
