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many applications from other countries for translations, 

 although, as we have no copyright agreements with 

 them, I never received a farthing for any of the 

 translations except from Messrs. Vieweg, who most 

 punctually paid what we had agreed upon. Trans- 

 lations of the book appeared in Russian, in Italian, 

 in Hungarian, in Polish, in Swedish, in modern 

 Greek, in Japanese, and even in one of the Indian 

 vernaculars, Urdu. Connected with this latter there 

 is an amusing incident. The book was not printed 

 but lithographed, and the page, instead of being small 

 octavo, was nearly twice the size, and the illustrations 

 of apparatus, &c., were magnified correspondingly. 

 On page 24 of my book a description is given of the 

 metrical system, and to enable the reader to under- 

 stand it is a drawing showing the length of a deci- 

 metre, divided into centimetres and millimetres. In 

 the Indian edition this drawing is also magnified ! 



The following letter from the translator, Amir Shah, 

 accompanied his book, which he sent me : 



LAHORE, Dec., 1879. 

 SIR, 



I am extremely obliged by your kind note of the 6th 

 October last. 



I hope the bound copy of my translation of your Ele- 

 mentary Lessons on Chemistry has safely reached you by 

 this time and that it has met with your kind approbation. 



I have done my best to make your book as popular and 

 useful among the purely vernacular students here as it is 

 among the Anglo- Vernacular students, both by translating it 

 into easy idiomatic Urdu style, as well as by illustrative 

 plates as are given in the original, and in conclusion beg 

 to add that any addition or alteration which you may think 

 desirable to suggest regarding the book will be most thank- 

 fully acknowledged by 



Yours most obediently, 



AMIR SHAH, 



Assistant Surgeon McCleod Kapurthala, 

 Natural Science Fellow. P.W. College. 



