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6. The Reports of the Committee in July 1843, Proceedings, Vol. XI, p. 616, will 

 shew in all its relations that the Committee has not been to blame, and how far 

 the Society's wishes and orders have, or have not, been acted upon. 



7. The Secretary to the Committee deems it his duty to state to the Committee, 

 that with the concurrence of the Society, the whole of these drawings, except such 

 as were required for the artists, were placed under lock and key, and under the special 

 charge of the Librarian, with strict injunctions that they were only to be shewn or 

 delivered by special order, as in the case of the Mackenzie collection and other rare 

 and valuable drawings ; the finished ones being of course at Mr. Blyth's disposition. 

 He now learns that they have been all placed in Mr. Blyth's hands. 



Dr. Roer being called in, says he knows nothing of Dr. Lord's notes, which have 

 never been in his possession. 



Resolved, — That a letter be written to Mr. Blyth, requesting within a given time, 

 (Saturday next,) a report as to the progress made in the text for Sir A. Burnes' draw- 

 ings, and as to whether Dr. Lord's notes have been recovered. 



The following letter was therefore addressed to Mr. Blyth : — 

 To E. Blyth, Esq. Curator Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — A meeting of the Committee for the publication of Sir A. Burnes' drawings of 

 the Zoology of the Indus, desires to enquire, what progress you have made in the letter- 

 press to accompany those drawings. 



I am further to enquire, with reference to a statement made by you that the notes on 

 those drawings by Dr. Lord are lost, whether you have recovered those notes, the 

 Committee having ascertained that the notes were never in Dr. Roer's possession, 

 and it having been proved that they were delivered to you by me, and have not, in 

 so far as any evidence before the Committee goes to shew, been ever out of your 

 hands. 



On these points the Committee request a specific answer in writing before Saturday 

 next the 21st instant, to enable the Committee to take early cognizance of the ques- 

 tion. 1 have, &c. 



H. Torrens. 



Committee adjourn to Wednesday, 25th September, 1841. 



At an adjoured Meeting of the Committee for the publication of Sir A. Burnes' 

 Drawings, held on the Ibth September 1844, at the Society's Rooms, at half-after 

 10 o'clock A.M. 

 Present.— Rev. J. Haeberlin, Chas. Huffnagle, Esq., S. G. T. Heatley Esq., H. 



Torrens, Esq., V. President and Secretary, H. Piddington, Secretary to the Committee;, 



Read letter from Mr. Blyth. 



H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — With reference to the first question proposed to me in your note of the 18th 

 ultimo, I beg to inform you, that from the commencement of the present month, I 

 have devoted as much time as my other and stringent duties would permit of to the 

 preparation of the letter-press to accompany the publication of Sir A. Burnes' draw- 



