with which they favoured me.* The average income of the Journal 

 during my proprietorship has been about 5,600 rupees a year, and the 

 expenditure about 5,300 Rupees. 



At the December Meeting of the Society my resignation was read, and 

 a resolution was recorded by the meeting, that the Journal, which I gave 

 up, should be taken by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, be edited officially 

 by its officers, and acknowledged as its organ of publication. This 

 most wise and excellent determination will I am satisfied prove gratify- 

 ing to the Members of the Society, and the readers of the Journal gene- 

 rally. It will raise the character of the periodical, and greatly benefit 

 the Society, by affording the means of interchanging papers with other 

 learned bodies, and of making its exertions in the cause of science gene- 

 rally, and actively known. This is hardly the place for me to ex- 

 patiate upon the flattering manner in which our President, the Honor- 

 able W. W. Bird, apprised me of the wish of the Society, that I should 

 resume office as their Secretary, under arrangements which would re- 

 lieve me of all harassing labours of detail. These arrangements, my 

 sketch of which the Society did me the honor to adopt, included the 

 appointment of Mr. Piddington as Sub- Secretary, by whom with 

 myself, the Journal will be in future edited under the general controul 

 of the Committee of Papers. 



This, therefore, is the last time I shall have to address my kind and able 

 supporters as Editor and Proprietor of a publication, which their labours 

 only have given value to. My warmest thanks are due to them not 

 only for their contributions, but for the forbearance they have evinc- 

 ed in all their relations with an over-worked, and, I fear, often too 



* I trust I shall be pardoned alluding more particularly to the publication, in a 

 thirteenth number during the past year, and its distribution gratis to Subscribers. 

 It consisted of the late Capt. Herbert's long-lost Report on the Geology of the Hima- 

 layas. lEi 



