1836.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 55 



"London, August 4, 1835. 

 " Sir, 



" In reply to the letter you addressed to me on the 25th January last, I have 



the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the boxes containing each twenty-five 



copies of a Tibetan Dictionary and Grammar, prepared for publication by the 



Hungarian Traveller Mr. Alexander Csoma Korosy, and printed at the 



expence of the British Indian Government, under the auspices of the Asiatic 



Society. 



"These fifty copies being destined by Mr. Korosy to be presented by the 

 different public Institutions of His Imperial Majesty's dominions, I lose no time 

 in assuring you, that the learned Author's intentions shall be faithfully fulfilled. 



" The enclosed letters and the Oriental works you have sent to the Antic Coun- 

 cellor Von Hammer, have also been forwarded to their destination. 



" I have not failed to inform my Government of the liberality with which the 

 Indian Government has replaced the sum of 300 ducats, transmitted through 

 this Embassy to Mr. Csoma de Koros, which had been lost by the failure of 

 Messrs. Alexander and Co., and anticipating its intentions, I seize with great 

 pleasure this opportunity to express to you, and through your means to the 

 Indian Government, as well as to the Asiatic Society, the high sense I entertain 

 of the kind protection afforded to my learned countryman in His Britannic 

 Majesty's dominions in India. Allow me to offer my sincerest thanks for such 

 generous conduct. 



" 1 have the honor to be, &c. 



" ESTERHAZY." 



Copy of this letter was directed to be communicated to the Government and 

 to Mr. Csoma Korosy, who left Calcutta a short time since on a tour through 

 Tirhut and to the west of India. 



Read a letter from H. Chamier, Esq., Chief Secretary to the Govt, of 

 Fort St. George, directing that the Sixty Copies of 4th, 5th, and 6th 

 volumes of Fatawa Alemgiri, subscribed for by the Madras Govt, 

 should be forwarded, and enclosing remittance for the same. 



Also similar letters from the Register of the Sadar Dewani, and the 

 Secretary of the College Council of Fort William. 



Library. 



Read a letter from F. Marcet, Esq., Secretary to the Societe' de Phy- 

 sique de Geneve, forwarding vols. 5 and 6 of their Transactions for pi*e- 

 sentation to the Society, and requesting an interchange of publications. 



Read a letter from M. Brousse, Secretary to the Royal Academy of 

 Arts, Sciences, &c. at Bordeaux, acknowledging the receipt of vols. 17 

 and 18, Asiatic Researches, and of a copy of M. Csoma de Koros's Tibe- 

 tan Dictionary and Grammar, and forwarding for presentation to the 

 Society, a copy of its Transactions from 1819 to 1834, inclusive, 5 vols, 

 handsomely bound. 



The Indian Journal of Medical Science, Nos. I and II, for 1836— by 

 F. Corbyn, Esq. 



Report on the State of Education in Bengal, presented by Messrs, 

 Willis and Earle, on behalf of Rev. Mr. Adam. 



