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IT may greatly conduce to the advancement 

 of useful knowledge, if the learned Societies 

 established in Europe, will transmit to the Secre- 

 tary of the Society in Bengal a Collection of 

 short and precise Queries on every branch of 

 Asiatic History, Natural and Civil, on the Phi- 

 losophy, Mathematics, Antiquities, and Polite 

 Literature of Asia, and on Eastern Arts, both 

 liberal and mechanic; since it is hoped that 

 accurate Answers may in due time be procured 

 to any Questions that can be proposed on those 

 subjects ; which must in all events be curious 

 and interesting, and may prove, in the highest 

 degree, beneficial to mankind. 



