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Read Letter, from Mr. E. Blyth, dated, London, 30th March, 1841, ap- 

 prising conclusion of an arrangement for his passage to India per 

 ■ Larkins,' and expressing obligations for conferring upon him the ap* 

 pointment of Curator to the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 also forwarding abstract of a memoir on the wild sheep. 



Read the following correspondence with Professor Wilson. 



East India House, 31st March, 1841, 

 To 



The Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 

 Sir, 



I have the satisfaction to inform the Asiatic Society, that at last the 

 travels of Messrs. Moorcroft and Trebeck have been given to the public. 

 The society is no doubt aware that the work was printed, and even 

 reviewed three years ago, at which period it was expected by the pub- 

 lisher that the map would have been completed. The unaccountable 

 and unjustifiable tardiness of Mr. Arrowsmith in the preparation of the 

 map has been the sole cause of the delay. 



The Society was apprised as soon as Mr. Murray engaged to publish 

 the work of the nature of the arrangement, which had been entered into 

 with him. It was stipulated that the Society would guarantee him 

 against loss in case the book should not meet with a ready sale, either 

 by payment of the deficiency or by paying for such copies as they might 

 desire to possess. If the book were sold, a certain number of copies 

 (40) should be placed at the disposal of the Society. Mr. Murray has 

 sold all the copies except the 40 thus reserved. They have been handed 

 over to me. A promise was given to Mr. Trebeck, the brother of the 

 traveller, that of the copies so received by the society, 12, should be 

 made over to him. As he was recently in town the 12 sets have been 

 delivered to him. Of the remaining, 10 have been sent to the Society 

 on board the Tamerlane. I have distributed six others in the following 

 manner : 



1 To the Royal Society. 



1 To the Royal Asiatic Society* 



1 To the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 



1 To the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



1 To the University of Bonn. 



1 To the Royal Geographical Society. 

 They have been presented in the name of the Society. There thus 

 remain 12 copies to the appropriation of which by myself I trust the 



