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[N.S.] 
MSS. which her husband had willed to some Society, which 
might use them for the advancement of Oriental learning, and 
thus they found their way to Calcutta, where little or nothing 
of their whereabouts was known until January, 1911.' The 
ary 
hensive lest Mr. Schroeter should be wasting his labour in doing 
what had already been accomplished by the Roman Catholic 
Mission, invited him to his house, where Mr. Schroeter compiled 
his Dictionary, which was in Tibetan-Italian. 
Hence, we may reasonably conclude from all that has been 
said that these Tibetan . vocabularies are the labours of 
the Italian Capuchin Missionaries, and that Mr. Schroeter 
simply copied them. A German by birth, and commissioned 
by the East India Company to compile a Tibetan- English lexi- 
con, it is out of the question that he should have composed a 
Tibetan-Italian Dictionary.” bey 
t now arises the question: who among the Italian Capu- 
chin Missionaries is the author of these Tibetan MSS.? To 
whom amongst them belongs the honour of having been the 
first European who composed such remarkable works on the 
Tibetan language ? 
I dare say, without fear of being contradicted, that the 
compiler of these Tibetan lexicons is Father Francesco Orazio 

years, and who had acquired a very profound knowledge of the 
by ; 
the Library at the Bishop’s College.’’ [To reconcile this passage with 
the text above, let it be remembered that the MSS. in question were 
donated to the Bishop’s College, while the printed books and, perhaps, 
say MSS. were bought by the Rev. Mr. Mill. I sought in vain—asI wa 
ed to ex 
Missions, but fo inste eral copies of Lettres édifiantes et curteuses, 
several rare Jesuit Relations on Canada, and a copy of Vincent le Blane’s 
Travels rench, a unique copy in C a. —H 
; ten, Od. 
. Buckland (Diction. of Indian Biography, London, 1906, 
p- 470) gives of Schroeter the following account: ‘‘A native of 
1 di i 
b 
Tibetan, with a view to missionary 
work in Tibet, but he died in July, 1820: he left MSS. of (1) a Tibetan- 
Engli n an Italian-Tibetan one, composed by 
Roman-Catholic Missionaries at Lhasa), (2) a supplement to the above, 
(3) the commencement of an English-Tibetan Dictionary, (4) a ise 
on the Tibet alphabet, (5) heads of a Tibetan Grammar, (6) a Tibet MS. 
and a part translation.’’ 
