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take the management of the part of the Journal de- 

 voted to Oriental literature and antiquities. On his col- 

 league will devolve the supervision and arrangement 

 of matters relative to Natural History and General 

 Science. The Editors propose no alteration in the 

 plan of the work. It will be their constant aim to 

 imitate Mr. Prinsep in the discharge of their editorial 

 duties. It will be their indescribable pride, should 

 they succeed in sustaining the high rank to which he 

 elevated his Journal among the most distinguished 

 periodicals of the day. 



But the Editors have no desire to conceal their 

 apprehensions of the possible failure of this attempt. 

 Both may without affectation describe themselves as 

 men having a full share of responsible occupation. 

 The hours of a scanty leisure are all they can assign 

 to this new care, nor have they in themselves the in- 

 exhaustible resources which enabled Mr. Prinsep to 

 fill up so perfectly, whatever deficiency any depart- 

 ment of the Journal might experience. Thus circum- 

 stanced, they would fain call on the Members of the 

 Asiatic Society, for the good name of that respected 

 body, as well as for the public utility, to exert them- 

 selves to support, nay to preserve, this Journal. Such 

 exertion will be the best token of respect and gratitude 

 to Mr. Prinsep — a feeling in itself enough to induce all 

 to contribute their contingents, however trifling, in 

 furtherance of the pursuits, which under the constant 

 patronage of the Asiatic Society, he cultivated with 

 such extraordinary success. 



The Editors have pleasure in stating, that in the 

 important departments of Oriental Geography, Modern 



