332 Asiatic Society. [No. 136. 



204 to 205. Stone Battle Axes from Mangeer a Island. Donor ditto ditto. 



206. Stone Battle Axe, from New Zealand. 



207. Copper Shield. 



208. Wooden Shield. 



European. 



209. Sword of Her Highness The Begum Sumroo, which she had worn from the year 



1778, to the day of her death, and which was always kept by her bed-side. Do- 

 nor Mr. Dyce Sombre. 



210. Spanish Gun. 



Read the following letter, dated Paris, 2nd February, 1843, from Major 



A Troyer: — 



Paris, 2nd February, 1843. 



My dear Tour ens, — I had the pleasure of sending you a letter by Baboo 

 Dwarkanath, who must have arrived in Calcutta sometime ago. Now, I avail 

 myself of the opportunity offered me by Mr. Oatley, of the Madras Cavalry, who 

 goes to India via Marseilles and Suez, &c. 



In my last letter to you, I touched upon some points, upon which - 1 shall be very 

 happy to receive a few lines from you. How is the copying of the Vedas for 

 the French Government going on ? It is now a considerable time since the 

 Asiatic Society of Paris has not received the least communication from you. You 

 cannot imagine what pleasure every thing which comes from Calcutta, causes 

 here in Paris. No. 123 is the last No. of your Asiatic Journal which we received. 

 The political and military affairs in India having now taken a very advantageous 

 turn, it may be expected that some more attention will be bestowed upon peaceable 

 and literary pursuits by some of the many distinguished individuals who live in 

 India. Will you have some more leisure to give us some tract of yours, or a 

 printed edition of some oriental work ? Mr. Brookhaus is a very respectable 

 Sanskrit scholar, who sent you some time ago his edition of the Vrihat Kittha, 

 with a German translation; he is since several years occupied with the study of 

 Indian tales, and would be very happy to see an edition of the whole Sanscrit 

 work published in Calcutta. I suppose Professor Wilson wrote to the Society 

 about this subject, and recommended it to you as a very laudable undertaking. 

 As to my own occupation — I can but repeat to you that 1 am still busy here in 

 Paris with the printing of the English translation of the Dabistan, in three 

 volumes, which I hope to be able to terminate in the course of this year. In my 



