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and likewise for Trinity College, Dublin. They have been delivered, and we have ac- 

 knowledgments for the same. 



The "Britannia" has arrived, and the six cases of Books consigned to us by her, 

 shall be delivered agreeable to the instructions contained in Mr. Torrens' letter on the 

 subject. 



We are, Sir, 

 London, 29th April, 1844. Your faithful servants, 



Wm. H. Allen & Co. 



Henry Torrens, Esq. V. P. and Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Sir, — We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed favor, dated 

 the 7th March, which reached us this morning. 



We shall have much pleasure in making the arrangement you desire, with an emi- 

 nent Sculptor, for the execution of a Bust of Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq. We shall 

 make a point of seeing Mr. Hodgson soon after his arrival. You may assure the Presi- 

 dent and Members of your Society, that our best attention is at all times given to their 

 commands. We shall address you again on the subject as soon as a Sculptor has 

 been decided upon. 



We are, Sir, 



London, 6th May, 1844. Your most obedient servants, 



Wm. H. Allen & Co. 



The Secretary stated, that as ordered at the last meeting, the Committee 

 of Papers had been requested to decide on what number of copies of the 

 Sobda Ratnakar, by Baboo Goropresad Roy, the Society should itself sub- 

 scribe for while recommending the work to the favorable notice of Govern- 

 ment, and that 25 copies had been determined upon by the Committee. 

 It was finally Resolved, that as proposed at the previous meeting, the 

 Society do subscribe as above, and strongly recommend the work to the 

 attention of Government in the Education Department. 



Read the following Letter from the Secretary to the Government of 

 India, Secret Department: — 



No. 430 of 1844. 



From the Secretary to the Government of India, to the Secretary to the Asiatic 



Society, dated Fort William, the 29th June, 1844. 



Foreign Department, Secret. 



Sir,— By direction of the Governor General in Council, I have the honor to transmit 



to you, for such notice as the Society may deem it to merit, the enclosed copy of a 



report by Major F. Mackeson, C. B., on the Survey of the road from Sirsa to Bahawul- 



