Sept. 1844.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. Ixxxix 



The Journal of the Asiatic Society shall likewise he regularly forwarded to the 

 Society at Lyons. We are, Sir, 



Your faithful servants, 

 London, July 2nd, 1844. Wm. H. Allen and Co. 



Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street, London. 



Dear Sir, — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 

 the 2nd July last, covering your account current with the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 closed to the SOth June last, exhibiting on that date a balance of ^£61 : 12 : 9 in 

 its favor, together with averages of books. All these have been on examination 

 found correct and satisfactory, and I am desired to say, that the Society approves of 

 your intention to retain the amount in part payment for the bust of Mr. B. H. 

 Hodgson, which you have been commissioned to get executed. To this sum you 

 will please add <£9 : 19 : 2, being sale proceeds of Journals up to No. 133, sold 

 by you, on my individual account, agreeably to your averages rendered in your 

 letter of the SOth January 1844, making together £K\ : 11 : 11, but deducting 

 therefrom ,£2 : 19 : 6, being the value of a set of bills drawn by me on you in 

 favor of Mr. Bartlett, per advice of the 9th August last, which will leave a total 

 of ,,£58 : 12 : 5, disposable for the bust in question. 



You will please convey to Dr. Busch of Bremen, the thanks of the Society for 

 the box of shells, which on coming to hand, will be more suitably acknowledged. 



I am, &c. 



6 th October, 1844. Henry Torrens. 



Read the following letter from Baboo Hurreemohun Sen, in reply to the 

 V. P. and Secretary's letter of 9th August: — 



To H. Torrens, Esq., Vice President and Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



Dear Sir, — In acknowledging the receipt of your very kind letter of date the 9th 

 instant, conveying to me and the other members of my late father's family, the many 

 expressions of regret and sorrow felt by the Society at his lamented death, I have to 

 apologize much for the delay which, owing to circumstances over which I had no con- 

 trol, has been incurred in my doing so. 



Allow me and the rest of the family to return you and all the other Members of that 

 noble institution, our heartfelt thanks for their kind condolence on this occasion, and 

 to assure you, that we highly appreciate, and are grateful for, their kind sympathy in 

 our present distress, and more especially for the sincerity with which it is expressed. 

 The contents of your letter, Sir, have afforded us a great consolation ; a consolation 

 which, at such a time as this, is so much needed, and which, coming as it does, from 

 so highly respectable a body of gentlemen, cannot fail to serve as a soothing balm to 

 our painful hearts. It indeed gives a melancholy gratification to our mind to know, 



