84 Conservntion of Sa?isJcrU LUerntiirf,. [March, 



The Governor-General in Council expresses his highest satisfaction at 

 what has already been effected, especially by Dr. Eajendralala Mitra in 

 Bengal, by Drs. Biihler and Kielhorn in Bombay, and by Mr. Griffith in 

 the North- Western Provinces. His Excellency in Council regrets that no 

 report has yet been received of what has been done in the Punjab, where 

 there would appear to be an unusually good field for research with such 

 places as Amritsar, Thanesar, to which may be added Rajaor, Kashmir 

 and Jamu. There can be little doubt that valuable results would be 

 gained, and the Government of India trust that His Honor the Lieutenant- 

 Governor will succeed in finding some person at Lahore or elsewhere who 

 is competent and willing to undertake the work. 



The general results which have been obtained are, in the opinion of 

 the Government of India, such as to warrant the prosecution of the search, 

 but the reports received from the several Local Governments and Adminis- 

 trations appear to His Excellency in Council to point to the desirability of 

 re-distributing the work ; and in this view the following arrangements 

 have been suggested as appropriate : 



{a) that Rajputana, Central India and the Central Provinces should 

 be attached to the Bombay Circle ; 



(5) that Mysore and Coorg should be attached to the Madras Circle ; and 



(c) that the North- Western Provinces and Oudh should be amalga- 

 ted into one circle, and that the work should be entrusted to one 

 ofiicer, or in the event of its being impossible to find such an 

 officer that both the North- Western Provinces and Oudh should 

 be joined to the Bengal Circle, the grant for that circle being 

 proportionately raised. 



The Governor-General in Council desires to be furnished with the 

 opinion of the several Local Governments and Administrations as to the 

 suitability of the re- distribution thus proposed, and to suggest that the 

 existing list of Sanscrit manuscripts should be re-examined by some one 

 competent, and asks, with the view of ascertaining how far it may be 

 worth while to acquire by purchase, where possible, or to secure copies of 

 manuscripts known to exist, that steps be taken accordingly. 



His Excellency in Council further desires that the Resolution may be 

 circulated as widely as possible, and that Sanscrit scholars may be invited 

 to make suggestions to indicate desiderata for which it may be deemed 

 expedient to make special search. 



The Seceetaet reported that the Society had been invited by the 

 Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences to send a representative to be 

 present at the celebration of the first centenary anniversary of that Society 

 to take place on the 24th April next. 



