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it is important as a step in Indian typography, that the numerous diagrams in this 

 work are intercalated with the text as if they were wood cuts ! though evidently 

 lithographs, and of course far superior to type-metal cutting. Upon enquiry of Mr. 

 Huttmann, of the Govt. Gazette Press, by whom the work is printed, he informs 

 me that they are lithographs, and that they were so inserted by first printing off 

 the sheet with the necessary blank spaces, and then sending the wet sheets to 

 the lithographers who printed in their share. This arrangement is highly credit- 

 able to the contriver of it, and a most valuable hint to all who may like ourselves 

 feel the absence of the art of wood-cutting, in illustrating papers relative to the 

 arts or sciences. 



For all the foregoing communications and presentations, the best thanks 

 of the Society were voted. 



