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What stronger argument of the utility of the book could be adduced than the ten. 

 der of a bonus of 1000 rupees to effect its publication by a gentleman who had for 

 two years in vain held out the same premium for an essay in English and the ver- 

 nacular, on the advantages of science ! Once placed in a Sanskrit dress, the Euro- 

 pean system of anatomy would be accessible all over India for subsequent transfer 

 into the Hindi dialects of every province if requisite, and it was no trivial argument 

 that the same work had been already printed in Arabic, and thus made available for 

 the Musalman practitioners and for translation into Urdu when called for. If doubt 

 existed as to the propriety of publishing in the learned languages, he submitted that 

 the special Committee of medical men consulted on a purely professional point, were 

 hardly competent judges, and he moved, as an amendment, 



That the question of the propriety of publication, be referred to the 

 Committee of Papers in the ordinary course. 



The President objected to the Committee of Papers because he thought they were 

 more likely to have a leaning in favor of Sanskrit*. 



On taking the votes on the question by shew of hands the amendment 

 was lost and the original motion carried by a majority, the name of Babu 

 Ram Comul Sena being added to the committee on the motion of Mr. 

 Hare. 



Rend, the following reply from Government to the reference made in 

 virtue of the resolution of last meeting on the subject of the Oriental 

 publication grant. 



No. 844, General Department. 

 To James Prinsep, Esq. 

 Sir, Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



I am directed by the Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal to ac- 

 knowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 12th instant with its enclo- 

 sure, and in reply to state that under the circumstances represented his 

 honor the Deputy Governor is led to believe that he shall only conform to 

 the wishes of the honorable the Court of Directors by giving to their or- 

 ders on the subject of Oriental Publications so much retrospective effect 

 as shall relieve the Society from the debt it has incurred in completing the 

 publication of the works made over to it by Government. A Treasury- 

 order will accordingly be issued in favor of the Sub-Treasurer to enable 

 him to pay to your receipt, on a bill to be drawn in the name of the Asiatic 

 Society, the sum of 2,500 Company's rupees, which appears to be the amount 

 advanced by the Society as stated in Para. 3 of your letter under reply. 



2. The completion of the remaining volume of the Mahabharata will 

 fall within the natural appropriation of the monthly allowance prospective- 

 ly assigned. 



I remain, &c. 



H. T. Prinsep, 

 Secretary to tha Government of Bengal. 

 Fort William, the ISth July, 1838. 



The Secretary to Government in reply to the Alif Leila reference, wished 

 to learn the cost of the translation, and the number of volumes, previous 

 to determining on the amount of patronage to be bestowed. 



Library. 

 The following books were presented : 



The Bulletin de la SocieHe" de Geographie, 2nd series, vol. 8— by the Geograph. 

 Society of Paris. 



Result of astronomical observations made at the H. E. I. C. observatory at Ma- 

 dras, by Thomas Glanville Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer, vol. IV, J836, 

 1837—% the Government. 



Defence of Colebrooke's exposition of the Vedanta philosophy— by Sir Graves 

 C- Haughton. 

 Recollections of the Deccan — by the Author. 



* We must apologize for the imperfection of this report as we kept no note. Mr. E. Stirling 

 and others spoke on their experience of the Hindi Vaidyas up the country receiving their instruc* 

 ton in Sanskrit, whatever it might be in Bengal,— (where every one knows Sanskrit is more read 

 and better understood than elsewhere, because it is more closely dependent on the Sanskrit for 

 all abstract terms.)— Ed. 



