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NOTE 5. 



Extracts from the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee of Correspondence of the 



Royal Asiatic Society. 



March 8th, 1828. 

 Sir Alexander Johnston, Chairman of the Committee, having submitted to the Committee a Disserta- 

 tion on the Law of Siam, by Captain James Low, of Penang, 

 It was Resolved, 



" Tliat in consequence of the talent and spirit of inquiry evinced by Capt. Low, in that Disser- 

 tation, he be recommended to the Council, for election as a Corresponding Meniber of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society." ^ 



Sir Alexander Johnston having also laid before the Committee, the first volume of a Sanskrit Encyclo- 

 pedical Dictionary, and a Bengalee Spelling-book, compiled by Baboo Radhacant Deb of Calcutta, 

 It was Resolved, 



" That in consequence of the talent displayed in those works, and the general exertions of Baboo 

 Radhacant Deb, for the promotion of knowledge, he be recommended to the Council for election as a 

 Corresponding Member of the Royal Asiatic Society."* 



March 11th, 18'28. 

 It was Resolved, on the motion of Sir Alexander Johnston, 



" That a Report of the steps taken by this Society, in relation to Captain Low, and Baboo 

 Radhacant Deb, be made to Lord William Bentinck, and Mr. Fullarton ; and that those Governors be 

 requested to afford their assistance to Captain Low, and Baboo Radhacant Deb, in the attainment of the 

 Society's objects." 



NOTE 6. 



Translation of n Letter from M, Abel Remusat, Secretary to the Asiatic Society at Paris, 



to Sir A. Johnston. 

 Sir: Paris, November 25, 1827. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society of Paris has received the letter in which you inform it of the 

 intended publication of Messrs. T. and VV. Daniell's Ilhistrations of India, and of the interest which the 

 Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland takes in the success of that enterprize. That interest 

 is strongly participated in by the Asiatic Society of Paris, which knows that the approbation of your 

 Society is granted only to useful works. The collection formed by Messrs. Daniell having also been most 

 favourably noticed by His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, appears under such favourable auspices, 

 that tlie Asiatic Society of Paris hastens to add its testimony of approbation to those which Messrs. 

 Daniell have already received. In exemplification of this feeling, and for the purpose of complying with 

 the desire expressed by His Royal Highness to the Council, in his letter of the 29th September, a com- 

 mission was appointed, at the meeting held on the 1st October, to examine the drawings of Messrs. 

 Daniell, and to report on them with as little delay as possible. This Commission, consisting of Messrs. J. P. 

 Abel-Remusat, St. Martin and Eugene Burnouf, after having examined the materials collected by these 

 learned artists, and obtaining from Mr. William Daniell all the necessary details on the nature of the 

 subjects of which the work will be composed, and of the order in which they will be arranged, has com- 

 municated the result of its examination, and the expression of its high esteem for Messrs. Daniell 

 and their important publication, in a report, which was read to the Society on the Gth November. On 



• In consequence of this recommendation, Captain Low and Baboo Radhacant Deb were elected corresponding 

 members of the Hoyal Asiatic Society on the 17th of May 1828. 



