834 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [£) EC- 



Oriental Publications. 



Payments. 



To paid several bills for printing 



Sanscrit and Arabic, • • . . 6900 8 6 



To Pandits and Maulavls for correct- 

 ing press, . . . . . . 1 60 



To writer and cashier, .. .. 150 



To expense of removing College 



Library, and sundries, • • 18 10 6 



To purchase of four book cases from 



the Education Committee, .. 59 118 



To cash realised by sale of Inaya, 

 transferred to Ramdhan Sen, on 

 his engaging to complete the work, 300 

 To freight to Europe, packing, &c, 192 15 7 

 To postage, cooly hire, &c. • • 55 9 3 



To balance in hand, . . . . 2174 8 7 



Co.'s Rs. 10,012 1 



Outstanding Bills due to the end of 

 1836, •• •• ... .. 22D4 9 11 



Receipts. 

 By cash balance of last year, .. 118 10 2 



By amount realised from public sub- 

 scriptions to the Alauigiri, . . 5786 10 8 

 By private subscriptions for that and 



other works realised, .. n<)0.') 2 & 



By sale of books, .. .. ~615 8 7 



By ditto to Education Committep, • . 504 

 By establishment for care of books 

 allowed by Government for March, 

 (afrerwards entered in general ac- 

 count,) .. .. -.-8 



Co.'s Rs. 10,012 1 



Subscriptions to be realised for works 

 delivered, say, •• •• 1000 



" The publications by the Society and under its auspices have been this year 

 unprecedentedly numerous. Of the Researches, two half volumes have been com- 

 pleted, one literary and one physical: the latter containing no less than 21 

 plates. Thirty, indeed, have been engraved, but nine are necessarily kept back, 

 from the text being yet unfinished. It is my duty to bring to the notice of 

 Members in what manner I have been enabled to publish so many finished plates, 

 engraved in a style much superior to those of former volumes, without entailing 

 an expense much beyond that of the paper on which they are printed. 



"The lithographs of the snakes and some of the botanical plates were kindlydrawn 

 by Dr. Cantor ; the remainder of the latter by the artists of Dr. Wallich's 

 establishment: one or two have also been executed by myself: but by far the 

 greater portion, including nine mezzotinto and six line engravings, have been 

 executed on holidays and at early leisure hours, by Ka'sina'th, the chief die en- 

 graver of the Mint, who most liberally refuses to accept any remuneration for 

 them, considering himself under some little obligation to the Society and to myself 

 for having brought his talents to notice. I trust the Society will testify in an 

 appropriate manner their acknowledgment of such a disinterested and noble act. 

 " Besides these works, the Society has witnessed in the course of the past year, 

 the completion of the Fatawa Alamgiri, the second volume of the Mahabharata, 

 (of which the third volume is also far advanced,) the Raja Tarangini, the Susrii- 

 ta, the Naishadha, and the Anis ul Musharrahin, leaving only the remainder of 

 the Mahabharata and a few pages of the Khazanat ul Ilin, to be accomplished, of 

 all the works transferred from the Committee of Public Instruction*. 



" Collaterally the Society has taken under its auspices the publication of the 

 Cochin-Chinese Dictionary, of the Alif Leila, and of an A.nglo-Burmese Diction- 

 ary of which the manuscript ordered to be printed under the patronage of 

 Government, has been placed in my hands by Mr. Lane its compiler, on his 

 departure for England; meantime our representative in England, Professor 

 Wilson, is engaged in passing the Moorcroft journals through the press at the 

 risk and credit of the Society. 



" In this sketch I do not allude to the journal and the appendices published 

 therewith, although it must be well known to all that this work owes its princi- 

 pal and most valuable contributions to its acknowledged connection with the 

 Society. 



" In reference to the expectation held out in last year's report, the Government 



* The Inaya has been transferred to the Editor, Babu Ra'mdhan Sen, under 

 agreement that he should complete it. 



