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the oriental manuscripts and printed volumes of the Fort William College 

 Library*. 



To James Prinsep, Esq. 

 Genl. Dept. Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, 



1 am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 6th instant, 

 and in reply to state, that the Governor of Bengal accepts the offer of the Asia- 

 tic Society to provide rooms for the accommodation of, and to hold accessible 

 to the public, the Oriental portion of the late Library of the College of Fort 

 William, and has ordered the books to be made over on the following conditions : 

 The books are to be the property of the Government until the Honorable Court 

 of Directors shall decide whether they shall be made over absolutely or not, the 

 Society to be ruled of course by their decision. The Government to allow the 

 Asiatic Society a monthly sum of 78 Rupees, (stated by the Secretary of the 

 College to be the minimum expence for custody of the books,) in consideration 

 of the Society's providing for establishment and keeping the books clean and 

 in proper repair. All other charges to be provided by the Society. The above 

 allowance to cease, in case of the property in the books being made over to the 

 Society. 



Fort William, \ H. T. PRTNSEP, 



the 2itk Feb. 1836. J Secy, to Govt. 



Resolved, that the Society acquiesce in the terms proposed by the Go- 

 vernment, and that the Secretary do take measures for receiving the 

 books and granting receipts for them to the Secretary of the College 

 Council in the course of their daily transfer. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : 



Memoirs of the Astronomical Society, vol. 8th — by the Society. 



Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Calcutta, vol. 

 2nd — by the Society. 



The following by Professor Bopp : 



Grammatica Critica Linguae Sanscritae, two editions, 1829, 1832 — by Pro- 

 fessor Bopp. 



Glossarium Sanscritum, 1830 — by ditto. 



Nalus, Maha-bharati Episodium, 1830 — by ditto. 



Diluvium, cum tribus aliis Maha-bharati praestantissimis Episodiis, 1829 — ■ 

 by ditto. 



Uber einige Demonstrativstamme und ihren Zusammenhang mit verschiede- 

 nen Propositionen und Conjunctionen im Sanskrit und den mit ihm verwand- 

 ten Sprachen, 1830. 



Uber den Einfluss der Pronomina auf die wortbildung im Sanskrit und deu 

 mit ihm verwandten Sprachen, 1832 — by ditto. 



Ardschuna's Reise zu Indra's Himmel, nebst anderen Episoden des Maha- 

 bharati — by ditto. 



Conjugations System, 1 vol. 12mo. 1816 — by ditto. 



Die Sundflut, 1 vol. 12mo. 1829— by ditto. 



Geological Report of an examination, made in 1834, of the elevated country 

 between the Missouri and Red Rivers, by G. W. Featherstonhaugh, U. S. 

 Geologist, presented by the American Philosophical Society. 



The following books were received from the book-sellers: 

 Bridgewater Treatises, Prout's Chemistry, 1 vol. Kirby on Animals, 2 vols. 

 Roget's Physiology, 2 vols. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, England, vol. 5th. 

 , Greeks and Romans, vol. 2nd. 



* The resolution, by inadvertence, was omitted in the printed proceedings. It 

 was to the effect, that as Government had been pleased to transfer the European 

 portion of the College Books to the New Public Library, the Society begged to 

 tender accommodation in its rooms for the Oriental portion of the same, the Go- 

 vernment agreeing to pay the establishment necessary for its due preservation while 

 in deposit. 



