VI 



Preface. 



PAYMENTS. 







RECEIPTS. 









To balance due 1st January, 

 To printer's bills for 1836, pd 

 To engravings and litho- 

 graphs 



To expence of circulation, 

 To postage ditto, 



Rs. As. 



1,304 2 

 .5,248 15 



910 



421 11 



48 3 



P. 



11 

 





 9 

 



By collections this year, .. 

 By distribution to Mem- "1 

 bersofthe As. Society, J 

 By shop sale9, 

 By sales in England, 

 By balance due, 



Collections due by Asiatic"] 

 Soc. and subs, in the > 

 three Presidencies, J 



Rs. A 

 3,455 



1,293 



280 

 415 



2,488 



s. 

 2 







13 



6 

 10 



P. 



8 







6 

 

 6 





7,933 



s 



7,933 

 7,139 







7 



8 



Bills for 1837 due say, .. 

 Add former balance, 



6,000 



2,48S 10 





 6 



5 



The deficiency, supposing all to be recoverable, is 1,349 13 1, 

 or almost precisely what it was last year; so that our present 

 price exactly pays the expenses of publication. 



The bulk of the volume has gone increasing at the usual rate, 

 and instead of eight hundred pages, we have now risen to eleven 

 hundred, with sixty plates ; too much to be conveniently bound 

 up in one volume. We have therefore provided separate title 

 pages to enable those, who so prefer, to divide the annual volume 

 into two parts with an index, common to both, at the conclusion 

 of the second part. 



The prominent subject of public discussion (to imitate the 

 order of preceding prefaces) as far as the Asiatic Society is 

 concerned, has been the museum, — the memorial to the local 

 government — now under reference to the Court of Directors,-— 

 suggesting that the Society's collection of antiquities and natural 

 history should form the nucleus of an extensive national esta- 

 blishment, in the present day almost " an essential engine of 

 education, instructive alike to the uninformed, who admires the 

 wonders of nature through the eye alone, and to the refined 

 student who seeks in these repositories what it would be quite 

 out of his power to procure with his own means.'" It is to be 

 hoped that this appeal to the court will not share the fate of 

 the oriental publication memorial of 1835, which is still unac- 

 knowledged ; but that we shall soon have an answer embracing 

 the united objects of the Society's solicitude, and enabling her 

 to advance boldly in her schemes to secure for herself, and for 

 the British name the glory of placing ' India physical, moral, 

 and historical, 1 upon the records of literature. What could be 

 adduced as a more convincing ' argumentum' (ad ignorantiam 

 dare we say ?) than the fact that at this moment a French gen- 



