had determined to publish it whether tlie Council printed it 

 or not. Viewed in this light, the resohition of the Council was 

 perfectly correct. 



Trusting the explanation will be considered satisfactory. 



I am, my dear Sir, 



Yours faithfully, 

 J. Waterhotjse, Capt., 



Hon. Sec, A. S. B. 



ffo. 5. 



21st Jamtary, 1876. 



Mt dear Sir, 



In reply to your letter No. 663 of lOth Decem- 

 ber, 1875, I must first point out that you have asseafced in your 

 first para., what I so particularly denied, viz., that I have with- 

 drawn from the Asiatic Society, because the Society did not 

 accept my paper. 



The facts are these. I placed my paper with an offer to pay 

 the cost of publication in the Society's Secretary's hands in 

 April last : the Council wrote to me in August, stating that they 

 declined the paper because of the cost. In my letter of 8th 

 November, I have said I had other grounds (beside Mr. Wood- 

 Mason's letter of 24th August) for impugning the statement 

 made by the Council. I will mention one of these. When my 

 paper was first brought before the Council it was ordered 

 to be referred to Dr. King for report (as Dr. King himself 

 tells me) : and the Council would give me no reply about 

 accepting the paper (although the cost was calculated by tbe 

 Secretary before first laying it before them) until they could get 

 in Dr. King's report. There was some delay about this : and 

 when it arrived it was of a dubious character, and did not 

 recommend the Council to accept the paper. The Council 

 thereupon in August write to me that they have declined the 

 paper " because they cannot afford the expense :" a short letter 

 hinting at no other concurrent reasons. 



The Council still assert, in their No. 663, that their resolution 

 was perfectly correct. I do not wish to press my charge of 

 untruthfulness further against the Council : as they have 

 made me an explanation after I had made the charge, it 

 would appear ungenerous, and quarrelsome so to do. But 



