82 Library. [Apeil, 



Mr. Blochmann read several portions of Mr. Growse's paper. He said 

 that the Prologue commenced, as usual, with an invocation of the Goddess 

 of Sj^eeeh, to which he might compare the custom of Muhammadan Mas- 

 nawi writers to add to the preface of epics a chapter on the ta'rif i suhhan, 

 which custom had become de rigueur since the time of Nizami. He was much 

 struck with Mr. Growse's translation of the 17th doha : it reminded him of 

 the Bhagawat Gita controversy, and was an additional proof that religious 

 thought repeats itself, and that it was not difficult to cull passages from 

 Hindu works that bear the most striking similarity to passages of the New 

 Testament, though the authors could not be supposed to have been acquaint- 

 ed with Jewish or Christian writings. The passage he referred to was the 

 following : 



There is one God, passionless, formless, uncreated, the universal soul, the supreme 

 spirit, the all-pervading, whose shadow is the world ; who has hecome incarnate and 

 done many things, only for the love that he bears to his faithful people, &c., &c. 



He hoped that Mr. Growse would have leisure and strength to complete 

 the great — he might say, national — work which he had comaiienced. Mr. 

 Growse was well known both for the extent of his researches in Hindi folk- 

 lore and philology, and for the classical taste that pervades his translations ; 

 and there was no one better qualified to bring out a faithful and truly read- 

 able version of Tulsi Das's Eamayana than Mr. Growse. 



The reading of the following paper was postponed — 



On Ancient Asiatic Firearms. By Major General E.. Maclagan, E. E. 



Library. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the meet- 

 ing held in March last. 



Transactions, Proceedings and Journals. 

 Presented hy the respective Societies or Editors. 

 Berlin. Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. — Monats- 

 bericht, December, 1875. 



/SVe^wews.— Messung der Fortpflanzungsgeschwindigkeit, der Electricitat in sus- 

 pendirten Drahten. 

 Birmingham. Institute of Mechanical Engineers. — Proceedings, Novem- 

 ber, 1875. 



W. Daniel. — On Mechanical Ventilators for Mines. C. Cochrane. — On the Ultimate 

 Capacity of Blast Furnaces. 

 Bordeaux. Societe de Geographic Commerciale de Bordeaux. — Bulletin, 

 No. I, 1874-75. 



