xxiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. QMarch, 1844. 



Read the following letter from Moulmein; the book to which it refers 

 was not obtained in time for the Meeting, having been sent to the Agri- 

 cultural Society by mistake. 



To the Librarian of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta* 



Sir,— I do myself the honor of enclosing an order for a copy of the Maulmain 

 Almanac and Directory for 1844, as also for a Plan of Maulmain, which I have been 

 induced to compile in consequence of there being no work of the kind here, and the 

 advantage it would be likely to confer upon the community, although a task of this 

 nature is altogether out of my line of life. 



Please accept of the work for the use of the Members of the Society. 



1 have sent it along with a few other copies to the care of Mr. Black, upon whom 

 the order is. 



I am, yours most obediently, 



Geo. Eyre Barr. 



P. S. — A few copies of the Work and Plan are sent for sale to Messrs. Ostell and 

 Lepage. 



Read the following letter from Dewan Horeemohun Sen, addressed to 

 the Sub-Secretary: — 



To H. PlDDINGTON, ESQ. &C &C &C. 



My dear Sir, — Here is a work compiled by Baboo Goorooprushad Roy, a very 



respectable gentleman and scholar. It is a Sanscrit and Bengalee Dictionary, or more 



properly speaking, an Encyclopedia, which has cost the author a great deal of labour 



and time, and much talent is, no doubt, displayed in it. The opinion passed upon 



this work by the learned Pundits here is highly favourable, as they consider it not 



only a very talented production, but particularly useful to persons learning Sanscrit 



and pure Shadhoo Bhasha Bengalee. I give him this note to you at his particular 



request ; his object being to ask the favour of the Society's helping him, if convenient, 



to print and publish it for the benefit of those who apply themselves to the study of 



Sanscrit. He thinks that you can obtain for him some subscribers in Europe, where 



Sanscrit is held in estimation, such as France, Germany and England, &c. If you 



could therefore give him a helping hand, you would oblige, 



Yours very sincerely, 



Horeemohun Sen, 

 Bank of Bengal, the \£th February, 1844. 



The specimen of the work accompanying the letter was thought highly 

 satisfactory, and the Secretary was requested to make further enquiry as 

 to the cost of printing, &c. 





