1864.] 



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451 



perfect them, as their ideas and their languages became enlarged. 

 In short, in the East, Mr. Heeley is quite correct in speaking of the 

 indigenous growth of alphabets, for undoubtedly in India alphabets 

 have grown with the languages they belong to, and to them they 

 have a prescriptive right. I do not think then that it would be 

 difficult to reconcile the extreme views of either of the speakers with 

 the more moderate and mean position I have taken up. 



The Librarian submitted a report of the accessions to the Library 

 since the meeting held in February last. 



LIBRARY, 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 meeting held in February last. 



Presentations. 

 \* The names of donors in capitals. 

 Les Animaux ; extrait du Tuhfat Ikhwan us Safa.— M. Garcia 



BE TASSY. 



Cours d' Hindoustani for December 1863. — The Same. 

 Tables of Heights in Sind, the Punjab, N. W. Provinces and Cen- 

 tral India determined by the G. T. Survey of India.— The Go 



YERNMENT OE iKDIAr 



Catalogue Raisonnee of Oriental MSS. in the Library of the (late) 

 College of Fort Saint George, now in the charge of the Board of 

 Examiners ; by the Rev. W. Taylor, Vols. II. and III.— The BetoajV 

 Government. 



Westwood's Oriental Entomology.— Lt. R. C. Beavan. 



History of the Reigning Family of Lahore with some account of 

 the Jummoo Rajahs— By Major G. C. Smyth.— The Author. 



The Daya Bhaga.— Babtj P. C. Tagore. 



A Treatise on the chronology of Sinaitic monuments, by His High. " 

 ness Hekekeyan Bey. — The Author. 



History of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan.-PRi^cE Gholam 

 Mahommed. 



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