xciv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [[Sept. 1844. 



only desirous of such mean results, or details as could be afforded without 



inconvenience. 



Read the following letter :— 



No. 2,037, of 1844. 

 From F. Currie, Esq. Secretary to the Govt, of India, to the Secy, to the Asiatic 



Society, dated Fort William, 1\th August, 1844. 

 Foreign Department. 



Sir, — By direction of the Governor General in Council, 1 have the honor to trans- 

 mit to you for such notice as the Society may deem it to merit, the accompanying 

 copy of a report by Mr. B. Woode, of his proceedings during his late Tour on the Naga 

 frontier. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 

 Fort William, the 24th Aug. 1844. Your most obedient servant, 



F. Currie, 

 Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



The paper was referred to the Editors of the Journal. 



Read the following letter addressed under orders of the Meeting of 

 July, (see proceedings,) to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal 

 with its reply : — 



The Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Home Department. 



Sir,— By desire of the Honorable the President and Committee of Papers of the 

 Asiatic Society, and in pursuance of a resolution passed at the Meeting of the 3d instant, 

 I have the honor to request, that you will be pleased to submit to the Honorable the 

 Government of Bengal, the accompanying specimen pages and certificates relative 

 to a proposed Sanscrit Dictionary in Bengali characters, to be entitled the Sabda Rat- 

 nakar, the author of which is Baboo Gooroopresad Roy, a Pundit of much eminence, 

 and for which he, as well as the Asiatic Society, respectfully solicit the support and 

 patronage of Government, to enable him to carry it through the press. A copy of the 

 Baboo's letter to the Society will be found with the certificates, and the resolution of 

 the Asiatic Society in reference to it is noted in the margin. 



The Society would desire respectfully to represent to H. H. that the work is one of 

 immense labour, and will be of the highest utility to Bengalee students of Sanscrit, 

 comprising as it does in itself, the essentials of several other works now only existing 

 in MSS., and expensive and difficult to obtain, and that thus it will be in an education- 

 al point of view of most essential service to the native community, and that the Society 

 indeed would have been happy to have given it a larger share of support, could it 

 with reference to existing engagements and claims have done so, and were the work 

 one of a higher, and more classic standard. 



It begs further, with deference, to suggest, that the Government might probably with 

 much public advantage confer copies of it, when published, as prizes in the Public 

 Colleges, for which purpose it is a work most excellently adapted. 



I am desired to add, in conclusion, that the Society is not aware of any modern work 

 in Sanscrit literature which has appeared for many years, better deserving the sup- 



