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learned Corporation which half a century ago has so nobly and so gener- 

 ously supported our great countryman in his investigations, and which by 

 the present act of generosity has greatly enhanced tlie esteem felt by every 

 Magyar towards the representative of British learning and genius in the 

 distant East." 



The following letters were read from Mr, W. T. Blanford and Prof. 

 W. D. Whitney thanking the Society for haying elected them Honorary 

 Members. 



Mr. Blanford says : — 



'* I have only recently received your letter of the 19th February in- 

 forming me that the Asiatic Society of Bengal had done me the honour of 

 electing me an Honorary Member, My absence from England caused 

 delay in the receipt of j^our letter and has prevented my acknowledging it 

 sooner. 



" May I request that you will convey to the Council and to the Society 

 my most hearty thanks for the honour they^iave conferred upon me, and 

 assure them that I continue to take as warm an interest in the prosperity 

 of the Society as I have done for many years past." 



Professor Whitney writes : — 



" Your favour of February 27th, notifying me of my election as 

 Honorary Member of the Society which you represent, is duly received ; 

 and I beg you to return on my behalf my best thanks for this distinguish- 

 ed mark of the Society's confidence, to which I attach the higliest impor- 

 tance, and which I shall feel as an additional incitement to effort in 

 furtherance of the branches of knowledge to which it devotes itself. 



" I shall do myself the honour to send by mail for the Society's Library 

 a copy of my Atharva- Veda-Index- Verborum on lai-ge paper (you have the 

 ordinary edition already, in the Journal Am. Or. Socy.), and will have also 

 a copy of my Sanskrit Grammar forwarded by the publishers." 



The Council reported that on the recommendation of the Philologi- 

 cal Committee the publication of the following works in the Bibliotheca 

 Indica had been sanctioned : 



1. S'ankhayana S'rauta Sutra, to be edited by Dr, A. Hillebrandt. 



2. S'aunaka's Sarvanukramani of the Rig-Veda, to be edited by Dr. 



E. L. Mitra. 



3. Tattva Chintamani with the Commentary of Mathura Natha, to be 



edited by Pandit Kamakhyanatha Tarkaratna. 



4. Selections from various old Commentaries on Manu, to be edited by 



Prof. J. Jolly. 



5. Brahmagupta's Karanagrantha, the so-called Khanda-Khadya, to be 



edited, with a translation and notes, by Dr, G. Tkieaut. 



