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intention to renew it. We trouble you with this letter privately, and shall be ob- 

 liged by your explaining the matter to the Society. It would not be reasonable to 

 suppose we can bear the loss of £18 10*, when no error had been committed by us. 

 The agency of the Society is, as you must be aware, at times very troublesome, and 

 for which we never make any charge, but on the contrary often study to promote its 

 interest at our own expense. This we shall continue to do, and consider the interests of 

 the Society as identical with our own. Our Map of India has just been corrected, at 

 a great outlay, to the present date, and if the Society desire to possess it, it will cost 

 about £10 10*. including shipping expenses to Calcutta. 



We are, dear Sir, 

 London, February 29, 1844. Your faithful Servants, 



W. H. Allen and Co. 



Read the following letter from Government, accompanying the work to 

 which it refers : — 



No. 550 of 1844, 



From W. Edwards, Esq. Under-Secretary to the Government of India, to 

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

 Foreign Department. 

 Sir, — I am directed by the Governor General in Council to transmit to you, for such 

 notice as the Society may deem it deserving of, the accompanying Grammar of the 

 Cashmeree Language, by Major R. Leech, C. B. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 

 Fort William, the 6th April, 1844. W. Edwards, 



Under-Secretary to the Government of India. 



This Grammar was referred to the Editors of the Journal for publica- 

 tion. 



Read the following letter from Dr. Griffith, Acting Superintendent H. C. 



Botanic Garden : — 



My dear Sir,— Dr. Martius, the learned writer on Brazil, and a high scientific 

 character, is anxious, as Secretary to the Mathematico- Physical part of the Ratisbon 

 Academy, to ascertain whether the Asiatic Society would be willing to enter on a system 

 of interchange of publications and objects with that Academy, and if so, what are the 

 publications, &c. the Society would wish to have, and of what.it would [he convenient 

 to the Society to dispose. 



