Dec. 1844.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. cxxxv 



To H. Torrens, Esq. %c, S$c. 4fc. Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Sir, — We have the pleasure to advise you of our having forwarded by the ship 

 11 Tudor," to your address, care of Messrs. Ostell and Lepage, a case of Books for the 

 Society which has been received from Trinity College, Dublin, with a request that it 

 might be forwarded to the Asiatic Society by an early opportunity. We have no 

 doubt you will have heard from Trinity College, respecting the same ere this. 



By the same ship we have likewise forwarded to your address a small box contain- 

 ing shells, &c. which are presented to the Society by Dr. Vandem Busch of Bremen. 

 The Dr. will be much obliged by your acknowledging the same. We have paid 

 fifteen shillings, expences on the box from Bremen, which we shall charge in our ac- 

 count. 



Messrs. Ostell and Co. have been requested to deliver the cases to the Society as 

 soon as they reach them. 



London, 2d September, 1844. 



Wm. B. Allen, and Co. 



An application having been made by Mr. H. M. Smith, the artist employed in 

 reducing and lithographing the fine coloured map of the* Nerbudda river, which ap- 

 peared in No. 153 of the Journal, for a small gratuity above his contract, on the 

 ground that the work had been more difficult and costly than he at first expected, 

 and some difference of opinion having arisen in the Committee of Papers, as to the 

 propriety of according this increase, it was referred to the Society, who voted Mr. 

 Smith a gratuity of 25 rupees above the amount of his bill. 



Read letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India : — 



No. 588. 



From T. R. Davidson, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, to 



H. Tokrens, Esq. Vice President and Secretary Asiatic Society, dated the 30th 



November 1844. 

 Home Department. 



Sir,-— I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th Instant, 

 with its enclosure, and to communicate the desire of the Right Hon'ble the Governor 

 General in Council, that the Asiatic Society will be good enough to forward to this 

 Department 25 copies of the Memoir* therein referred to. 

 Fort William, the 30th Nov. 1844. 



T, R. Davidson, 

 Offig. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



From the Secretary of the Military Board : — 



No. 3,954. 



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

 Sir, — I am directed by the Military Board to acknowledge the receipt of your 

 letter dated the 6th current, and to state that application should be addressed to 



• On the navigation of the Nerbuddah river with a map, see Journal No. 1833. One hundred 

 copies were also forwarded for the Government of the N. W. P. 



