I860] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. SI 



Report from the Council. 



The Council beg to submit for the approval of the Society the 

 following report of the Philological Committee recommending the 

 publication of. Zeeah Burneah in the Bibl. Indica. 



Report. 



The Philological Committee recommend to the Council that the 

 Zeeah Burneah, a Persian History of the reign of Firuz Shah Toghluk, 

 should be published in the new series just commenced of the Bibl. 

 Indica. Several MSS. have been collected to form an accurate text, 

 and Moulavi Syud Ahmed Khan of Moradabad has offered to edit it. 

 The work will fill about seven Fasciculi, and as it relates to a "very 

 important and but little known period in the history of Muhammadan 

 India, and as the book itself is extremely rare, it appears to the Com- 

 mittee on every account desirable to have it printed. 



The report was adopted. 



The Council reported that they had addressed the following letter 

 to the Supreme Government : — 



From W. S. Atkinson, Esq. Secy. Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 To W. Gbet, Esq., Secy. Govt, of India, Home Dept. 



Asiatic Society's Booms, Calcutta, 27th Feb. 18G0. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Council to bring to the notice of the 

 Honorable the President in Council the opportunity afforded by tho 

 present expedition to China of investigating the Physical Geography 

 and Natural History of portions of that country to which access may 

 hereafter be difficult or impossible. 



2. The Council have felt so deeply the importance of not neglect- 

 ing this opportunity, that they recently requested their President to 

 ascertain the views of the Viceroy, but at that time it appeared to His 

 Lordship that he would not be warranted in exposing a naturalist to 

 such risk of life, as would be incurred by prosecuting Natural History 

 researches in a hostile country. 



3. Since that time considerable extension has been given to tho 

 force intended to operate in China, and it appears probable that posts 

 must be established to serve as a basis for operations inland, in nor- 

 thern China, a country little known to naturalists and of very great 

 interest. 



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