1839.] Asiatic Society. 533 



aries went to Egypt and Greece it is astonishing that nothing of this truly interest- 

 ing fact should have been mentioned in any work of a Greek author. But this may be 

 as it is, I am sure that you are only at the beginning of your work, and that we may 

 look for real Indian history, from the time of Alexander the Great, at least, to the inva- 

 sion of the Mohamedans. 



* It is a considerable time I did not write to you, my dear Sir, but I was afraid to take 

 away from your valuable time, which you employed even beyond my expectations : 

 but if I did hesitate any longer to send you a few lines, I am afraid I could be entirely 

 escape your memory. I take the liberty at the same time to send you for the Society 

 (if you think it worthy) " the Fishes of Kashmir," found by myself in the valley, and 

 brought home with me. I am sorry that it is in German, but as it is my native tongue, 

 I think it my duty to publish in it. There is another work now printing, which I hope 

 will prove a good one : it is " Kashmir and the Sihks" in four volumes. 



' I beg your being good enough to send for the subscription money for the Journal to 

 Gillanders and Arbuthnot : it happened once (just one year ago) that I was obliged 

 to pay dl. 17s, for four numbers of your Journal, postage from Calcutta to London : 

 it was sent me from thence to Vienna by an Austrian Courier ; I made all kind of re- 

 monstrances, but without success. " Pamphlets only" not having been written on the 

 address, the Post Master General would not hear of a reclamation. ' 



<C. H. HUGEL.' 



[Some desultory conversation took place before the Meeting separated, as to the 

 interruption of the Meteorological Register so long published in the Society's Journal. 

 It has been kept chiefly by Mr. Green way, an assistant in the Calcutta Assay Office, 

 who was trained by Mr. Prinsep to the use of his unrivalled instruments, and to the 

 correction of their indications by special tables now in Mr. Greenway's possession, 

 Mr. Prinsep had, moreover, as a parting request, urged Mr. Green way not to dis- 

 continue observations which had acquired standard value in the estimation of all 

 Meteorologists. Mr. Curnin, the acting Assay-Master, has however deemed it neces- 

 sary to prohibit Mr. Green way's devoting any portion of his time to this employ- 

 ment, and Mr. Curnin is further unwilling to allow Mr. Prinsep's instruments to 

 be removed from the Mint to any other establishment. Under these circumstances, 

 Mr. Rees, of the Surveyor-General's Office, has most liberally permitted his Regis- 

 ters to be made use of by the Society. We have already published that for July. 

 The Barometrical observations are made with a first rate Troughton. 



We have taken measures for having the instrument accurately compared with 

 others which have been adjusted by the Royal Society's standard, and the reductions 

 to 32° will be duly calculated for quarterly periods. We propose too to add to the 

 Register a daily double observation of the boiling point of water, taken with an excel- 

 lent Thermometer, recently sent out to Mr. James Prinsep's order. This seems to 



us a desideratum of much importance. 



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