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You are requested to draw on the Society for advances and charges connected with 



the work, and the Honorable the President directs me to express his strong personal 



desire that you will gratify the Society by giving this matter your best attention. — 



Cost of the bust understood to be not over Guineas 150. 



1 am, &c. 



Calcutta, 1th March, 1844. H. Torrens, 



Vice President and Secretary Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Read the following letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Government 

 of India, sanctioning payment for the copies of the reprint of Lieutenant 

 (now Major) Leech's Beloochy and Brahooi Vocabulary and the over- 

 copies of Capt. Eastwick's Scindee Vocabulary. 



No. 131 of 1844. 



From T. R. Davidson, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, to 



H. Torrens, Esq. Vice President and Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — In reply to your letter dated 26th ultimo, I am directed to inform you, that 



His Honor the President in Council has been pleased to pass the 



Foreign Department, two bills submitted by Mr. Ridsdale of Bishop's College Press, 



amounting in the aggregate to Company's Rupees 124, for printing 



on account of Government, 150 copies of Lieutenant Eastwick's Vocabulary of the 



Scindee Language, and 150 copies of Lieutenant Leech's Grammar of the Brahuiky, 



Beloochee and Punjabee Languages. The necessary instructions will be issued through 



the Financial Department for the payment of that sum from the General Treasury to 



Mr. Ridsdale's receipt. 



T. R. Davidson, 



Fort William, 24th Feb. 1844. Offg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Read the following letter from the Secretary to the Royal Bombay 

 Branch of the Asiatic Society : — 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. 



Sir, — With reference to my letter of the 7th September last, and by desire of the 

 Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1 have the honor to enclose bill of 

 lading of a box shipped on board the Framjee Cowasjee, Captain Edwards, for Cal- 

 cutta, containing copy of the Izashni and Visparad, of each of which 25 copies only 

 have been lithographed at the expense of the Society, which you will be so good as 

 to present to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The box also contains 72 Geological 

 specimens, some of which are of considerable interest. 



The enclosed separate list will be of use in assisting the Curators in the arrange- 

 ment of such of these specimens as may be found to deserve a place in the Museum, 

 the fossils having been named with considerable care. 



Another box will be prepared in a short time. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



John G. Malcolmson, 



Bombay, Asiatic Society's Rooms, dth Feb. 1844. Secretary, B. B. R. A. S. 



