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chance of completing the work, he had had some conversation with the author, 

 who had expressed his readiness to revise and edit it, with additions from late 

 works, such as Quin's Anatomy and the Dublin Dissector with which he had be- 

 come acquainted at the Medical College. He strongly advised the publication of 

 the plates also from Paxton's or Quin's work. Supposing the work to contain 

 600 pages, the cost of printing the text may be rupees 3000 ; and the plates in 

 wood cuts, say, 1000 ; and the time occupied in passing through the press would not 

 fall short of two years. The author would prefer a remuneration for correcting the 

 press say at eight annas a page, to receiving a portion of the printed edition. But 

 the whole expense of the work would not much exceed 4000 rupees, out of which 

 Mr. Muir's donation would cover one-fourth. 



Professor O'Shaughnessy objected to the selection of this Vade Mecum for 

 translation, as greatly inferior to other works for teaching the rudiments of anatomy 

 to the natives,— and after some discussion it was 



Resolved, that the question of publishing a Sanskrit edition of Hooper's 

 Vade Mecum be referred to Drs. Wallich, O'Shaughnessy, Evans, 

 Spry and Egerton, as a Committee, with liberty to add to their number. 



The Secretary mentioned other works which he proposed to undertake 

 on the strength of the Government grant, but it was agreed that the list 

 should in the first instance pass through the Committee of papers, to 

 whom was also referred a proposition by Mr. Curnin, whether it would 

 not be expedient with the 500 rupees per mensem for the Society to 

 establish an oriental press of its own. 



Read a letter from Messrs. W. Thacker and Co., forwarding a speci- 

 men of a translation of the Alif Leila, by Mr. H. Torrens, C. S. and 

 soliciting the same degree of patronage as had been aceorded a in 1836, to 

 the Arabic text. 



The first volume of translation, with notes, would be published in the course of 

 August next, and one volume of the Asiatic text was also ready for issue — the price 

 of the English volume would be eight rupees. With reference to the strong hope 

 expressed in the former reply from Government that the Society would be able to 

 provide for the translation of the Macan manuscript by a competent scholar of the 

 presidency, (see vol. V. page 753) it was— 



Resolved, that the specimens be submitted to Government, with the 

 Society's confident anticipation that Mr. Torrens' translation would merit 

 the patronage pledged in the reply of Mr. Secretary Prinsep, dated 2nd 

 Nov. 1836. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : 



By Raja Ra'dha'ka'nta Deva,— the fourth volume of his Sanskrit Lexicon, the 

 Shabda Kalpa Druma. 



By Mr. Caldecott, Astronomer to the raja of Travancore, — the Trevandrum 

 Almanac for 1838, an astronomical ephemeris compiled and printed at his observatory. 



The Madias Journal of Literature and Science, — by Dr. Cole, Editor. 



India Review and Journal of Foreign Science and Arts, Edited by Frederick 

 Corbyn, Esq. Vols. I. II. Calcutta, 1837-38,— by the Editor. 



Capt. Jenkins presented some school-books, the first fruits of the Missionary 

 Press at Sadiya in Assam. 



The Meteorological Register for May,— by the Surveyor General. 



The following were received from Europe. 



An Essay on the Antiquity of Hindu Medicine, &c. by J. F. Royle, London, 

 1837,— /rom the Author. 



The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No, $, 

 December, 1837,— presented by the Royal Asiatic Society. 

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