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this occasion, led on the following month to the adoption of measures, by which we look 

 forward to an early installation of the like remembrances of Sir Wm, Jones, of Mr. 

 Colebrooke, and Dr. Mill. This is indeed an object worthy of a grateful and wise 

 Society, and must excite in the present Members the ambition of ultimately deserving 

 such inestimable rewards. 



In February a despatch was received from the Court of Dh*ectors, ordering 40 copies 

 of each number of the Society's Journal — an act of generous patronage most fitly 

 bestowed on the periodical, as it was then conducted. It was moreover but the fore- 

 runner of still greater munificence, in the grant authorized in September of 500 Rupees 

 per mensem for the encouragement of Oriental Publications. 



Nor while we acknowledge this princely aid from Government, should we be silent 

 on the liberality of some individual benefactors. Among these. Mr. Muir stands pre- 

 eminent — his subscription of 1000 Rupees to the expenses of the " Sharira Vidaya" will 

 we trust ere long be instrumental in placing a practical work on Anatomy within the reach 

 of the hereditary physicians of the East. Another act of warm co-operation, and we 

 have done. Let us commemorate the readiness with which Mr. James Prinsep sus- 

 tained, by an outlay of 6,000 Rupees, the publication of the " Mahabharata," which 

 would otherwise have necessarily been discontinued. For this we are fortunately en- 

 abled to indemnify Mr. Prinsep, but he is not the less entitled to this grateful notice 

 of his unrivalled liberality. 



In conclusion of this very imperfect Report, we should have dwelt in due and de- 

 served detail on the vast loss we have experienced in Mr. Prinsep's departure to 

 Europe, had not the subject been so fully and recently before the Society, and 

 so perfectly dealt with in the President's address. We have now only to express 

 our earnest hopes that in full health and spirit Mr. Prinsep may soon return to the 

 scenes of his brilliant and numerous triumphs. His absence must not however altoge- 

 ther nullify the movement he excited. It seems to us too that the best proof, of the 

 esteem and affection in which we hold him, will be the perseverance in his pursuits, and 

 in the support of his Journal, until his presence enables the Society to enjoy again 

 the advantage of his inestimable labours. 



(Signed) J. C. C. SUTHERLAND, 



W. B. O'SHAUGHNESSY, M. D. 



Acting Secretaries. 



