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involved in that of native education, and will be thought entitled, on its own grounds 

 to the attention of the Honorable Court. 



1 have, &c. 



(Signed) H. H. Wilson, 

 Agent in England for the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



London, 26th November, 1387. 



The President congratulated the Society on the success of their application to the 

 Court, which was evidently attributable to the strong appeals, especially the second, 

 from their agent Professor Wilson. He regretted that in the first address to the Court 

 Prof. Wilson had mixed up the two questions of education and of Oriental Literature 

 •which the Society had purposely kept distinct. He was totally at variance with the 

 Professor's arguments in the first, and could even contradict many of his assump- 

 tions, but he was glad to see that the impediments to the Court's compliance with 

 the memorial, evidently caused by his mixture of two questions, had been skilfully 

 removed by his second letter : he thought Professor Wilson had done great service 

 to the Society, and he concluded by voting, and it was by acclamation 



Resolved, that the thanks of the Asiatic Society be offered to Professor 

 Wilson for having used his best exertions for obtaining a grant from the 

 British Indian Government for the publication of oriental works and 

 works of instruction in the eastern languages through the medium of the 

 Asiatic Society, 



The Secretary regretted also on one account that Dr. Wilson's second letter had 

 not been the first sent in, as in that case the boon might have come at least a year 

 earlier, whereas now it might be doubtful whether it could be properly applied to the 

 debt which had accumulated in the interim. He had, as stipulated at first with the 

 Society, conducted the oriental printing as a separate account, and was in advance 

 from his own funds 2000 rupees, and the fourth volume of the Mahabharata which 

 was nearly completed would put him 4000 more out of pucket. Upon this explana- 

 tion it was 



Proposed by Sir Edward Ryan, seconded by the Lord Bishop, and 

 carried nem. con. 



That the Secretary be authorized to address the Society's acknowledg- 

 ments to Government for the monthly sum which, under the Honorable 

 Court's sanction, had been placed at its disposal for oriental publications, 

 and to explain what had been done pending the application home, expressing 

 a hope, with reference to the excess of expenditure incurred, that the date 

 of the grant (left open by the Court's dispatch) may be fixed so as to pro- 

 vide arrears to meet the Secretary's outlay, or to permit the grant in 

 prospective to be applied, partially or wholly in the first instance, to clear 

 off the debt. 



Read a letter from Mr. Muir, proposing to transfer the 1000 rupees 

 lately offered through the School Book Society, as a premium for an 

 essay on the advantages of science, to the Asiatic Society in order to pro- 

 mote the publication of the Sdrira Vidya, a Sanskrit tranlation of Hooper's 

 Anatomist's Vade Mecum, by Madhu Su'dana Gupta. 



The Secretary explained that this was one of the unfinished works transferred to 

 the Society ; that the author on completion of the translation received 1000 for the 

 manuscript from the committee as previously agreed, he had the option of giving a 

 fair copy, or printing ; the pandit preferred the latter, and two-half sheets had been 

 printed off at the time of the. suspension order. Finding so much had to be done in re- 

 writing the manuscript which was yet in a crude state, he had abandoned all thoughts 

 of completing this work, much as it would contribute to a knowledge of that most 

 useful science, the structure of the human frame, among the native medical practi- 

 tioners who are all over the country instructed in Sanskrit alone. On this inquiry 

 however from Mr. Muir (and it was not the only one) regarding the progress and 



