1836.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. ' 435 



To this letter the following reply had just been received :— 



To James Prinsep, Esq. 



Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, 



I am directed by the Right Honorable the Governor General of India in 

 Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 1st instant, and in 

 reply to state that his Lordship entirely approves the arrangement made by 

 you on the part of the Asiatic Society for the publication at the Serampore 

 Press of the Anamitan Dictionary prepared by the Most Reverend the Bishop 

 of Isauropolis, at the charge already sanctioned, of 5,500 rupees. 



2. The modifications made in the original proposition seem to his Lordship 

 in Council calculated very much to improve the work, and entirely meet the 

 wishes expressed in my letter dated 20th ultimo. 



3. The Governor General in Council has much satisfaction in acknowledging 

 the disinterested and public-spirited oifer made by the Right Reverend author, 

 to forego a portion of the remuneration allotted to him in order to obtain the 

 advantage of having the work published in type ; and the terms accepted by 

 Dr. Marshman of Serampore appear to his Lordship in Council to be not 

 less liberal ; for the rate at which they have agreed to print the work in the 

 original character is such as can afford them little or no profit. 



4. It is the wish of the Governor General in Council that additional copies 

 should be printed of the Vocabulary proposed to be added ; and if this should 

 occasion an increase of expense, his Lordship in Council will have no objection 

 to defray the amount that may be charged on this account, taking for Govern- 

 ment an additional 100 copies of this part of the work. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 Council Chamber, the 3rd Aug. 1836. H. T. PRINSEP, 



Sec. to Govt. 



The liberality of the proprietors of the Serampore Press in undertak- 

 ing to print the work without any hope of profit, or even at the risk of 

 some sacrifice, was fully appreciated by the Society, and the best thanks 

 of the meeting were conveyed to Dr. Marshman, who was present. 



A bill from the Orphan Press for printing the 1st part of the twentieth 

 volume of Researches, 248 pages, amounting to C.'s Rs. 1806 6 4,|was pre- 

 sented and passed. 



Oriental Publications. 



The Secretary reported the completion of the Naishadha-Cheritra (1st 

 part, 900 pages) one of the Sanscrit works transferred from the Committee 

 of Public Instruction ; of which copies were ready for distribution. By the 

 terms of agreement with the Editor, Prema Chandra Panpita, of the 

 Calcutta Sanscrit College, who had supplied the tika or commentary, 100 

 copies were to be given to him in lieu of pecuniary remuneration, which 

 was approved. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : — 



Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Madras Observatory dur- 

 ing the years 1834 and 1835— presented by the Madras Government, through 

 Colonel Casement, Mil. Sec. Sup. Govt. 



Jahr bucher der Literatur, No. 69, 70, 71, and 72— presented by the Baron 

 Joseph Von Hammer. 



Notizia di Diciotto Codici Persiani della Biblioteca della Regia Universita di 

 Torino — by the same. 



Memoire sur deux Coffrets Gnostiques du moyen age— by the same. 



Mamik und Afra, a German Poem, translated from the Persian— by the same. 



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