88 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Jan. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Government on the subject 

 of the Journal, deeming it, though of more immediate concern to himself 

 as editor and proprietor of that work, in principle addressed to the 

 Society, whose labours it eulogized. 



To James Prinsep, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, 



I am directed by the Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal to transmit to 

 you the annexed extract from a letter, No. 51 of 1837, from the Honorable the 

 Court of Directors in the public department, dated the 2?5th October, in order that 

 the wishes of the Honorable Court in regard to the transmission of 40 copies of the 

 Society's Journal from its commencement to the period of dispatch may be complied 

 with, and that 40 copies of each of the succeeding numbers as they shall respective- 

 ly appear, be in future forwarded to this Department, and for transmission to the 

 Honorable Court. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 

 Fort William, 1 (Signed) H. T. Prinsep, 



l*Jlh January, 1838. J Secy, to Govt. 



Extract from Letter, No. 51, of 1837, from the Honorable the Court 

 of Directors, dated the 25th October. 

 *' We have always felt the importance of affording due encouragement to the pro 

 motion of learned and scientific pursuits in the territories subject to our Govern- 

 ment, and more especially to those branches of knowledge which have peculiar 

 reference to Oriental objects. The Asiatic Society of Bengal, having labored long 

 and successfully to collect and diffuse the best and most accurate information upon 

 such topics, we desire that you forward to us 40 copies of the Journal of that Society 

 from its commencement to the period of dispatch ; and that you will subsequently 

 continue to transmit 40 copies of each of the succeeding numbers as they shall 

 respectively appear." 



(True extract,) 



H. T, Prinsep, Secy, to Govt. 



A representation having lately been made to Government respecting 

 the publication of the Bishop of Cochin China's Vocabulary forming an 

 Appendix to the Dictionary now nearly completed, the following answer 

 was received. 



To James Prinsep, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, 



I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 13th instant, 

 soliciting that the Government will take upon itself the entire expence of printing 

 the Vocabulary or English Appendix to the Cochin Chinese and Latin Dictionary 

 about to be published by the right reverend the Catholic Bishop of Isauropolis in 

 lieu of paying for the 100 additional copies of this part of the work ; and in reply to 

 state, that under the representation now made, the Honorable the President in Coun- 

 cil is prepared to authorize the expenditure of a sum not exceeding 1,5U0 rupees for 

 the publication of 1,300 copies of the Vocabulary of the Anamitan language which 

 has been prepared at the suggestion of Government with the map, &c, in lieu of 

 taking the 100 additional copies as originally proposed. 



I am, &c. 



Council Chamber, "I 

 nth January, 1838. J H. T. Prinsep, Secy, to Govt. 



Babu Ram Comul Sena communicated an offer, from Maulavi Hafiz 

 Qabir, of 1,200 rupees for the imperfect set of the Fattiwa Alemgiri. Re- 

 ferred to the Committee of Papers. 



The Librarian submitted a statement of the books bound and repaired 

 from November to January, in all 146 volumes; a daftarie's bill for 

 Rs. 63 2 was passed. 



The following extract of a letter from Professor Wilson, to the Secre- 

 tary, dated 5th September, 1837, having been read : — 



" We have in the library ut the East India House an excellent bust of the late 

 Mr. Colebrooke by C ban trey, a copy of which the artist would furnish for £60. 

 It would form a valuable addition to your Society's statuary if 600 rupees could be 

 raised for the purpose." — 



Proposed by the Secretary seconded by Captain Sanders and carried 

 unanimously ; — 



