604 A KAZEM-PBEGC, 
A supplementary Note to Part IX, Remark 1, lit. A. 
The present work was already prepared for the press in:1842 (with the exception of the pre- 
face, which 1 enlarged sometime after and added to it in 1844); and the first MS. of my 
work was in the same year 1842 presented to his Excellency the Minister of Public Instruction. 
Our illustrious Count Ouvaroffcondescended to submit the work for examination to the Impe- 
rial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg which was, in consequence of the favourable recommen- 
dation of Dr. Dorn (s. Bullet. I. p. 333, 335.), pleased to honour it with approbation. Since that time 
however my work, for certain reasons, has remained unpublished up to the present day; and, con- 
sequently at various times it was read, examined and consulted by my friends and pupils. Among 
the latter Mr. Berezin, now professor of the Turkish and Tartar languages in the University of 
Kasan, had it often in his hands before and after his travels to the East; and most willingly 
did I permit him to consult it in his researches into the Antiquities of Däghistän. But I never 
expected that a pupil to whom I was sincerely attached, would thus abuse the confidence I had 
placed in him. Thinking perhaps, that my work was never to be published, he in many places 
of his Ilyremecrsie no Bocroky, Kasans 1849, has made use of my notes and illustrations — 
without either acknowledging that he has followed the opinion of his former professor, or even 
without citmg his work. The inscription exhibited in the Remark 1. lit. A to part IX. of this work 
Mr. Berezin has taken from my Manuscript and introduced it into his work as learned from hear- 
say (notes, page 119, lines 3— 4); (read his work page 243 line 6 — 12). Moreover while spea- 
king most respectfully of his former preceptor (see page 7 of the notes) he calls his work 
dosonsmo saxHoe couuneHie 414 Mcropim /arecraua ï, e. «a work important enough for the his- 
tory of Daghistan !» This expression would be more appropriately used by those whose erudition is 
extensive enough to enable them to estimate my work; but Mr. Berezin is in every respect 
yet too inexperienced for such a task. He must therefore permit me to consider his conduct 
towards me as very inconsiderate and unbecoming. But I should have made no mention of it 
here (for perhaps on a subsequent occasion I shall be obliged to speak more particulaily upon 
the subject) if I did not wish merely to defend myself, lest my learned readers (although 
Mr. Berezin excludes them from the number of that «reading public», for which he has dé- 
signed his publication; see his preface p. xiv) should suspect me of plagiarism. 
