514 Asiatic Society. [No. 138. 



Drawings of the Gates of Somnath and of the Tomb of Mahommed of 

 Ghuzni were exhibited to the Society, before being sent for publication in 

 the Journal. 



Read the following letter from Dr. H^eberlin : — 



H. Piddington, Esq. 



Sub-Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 



My dear Sir, — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 

 2nd instant, along with a letter of Mr. Koenig of Bonn, and one of Dr. Roer, the 

 Librarian, respecting a selection of Books to be sent to Bonn, and to be received from 

 thence. 



I recollect having made a memorandum of the Sanscrit works proposed to be sent to 

 Bonn for sale, as likewise what works published there should be requested. The lists 

 were approved of, and I believe it was arranged between Mr. Torrens and myself, that 

 I should communicate this to Mr. Koenig ; unfortunately I had not kept a copy of the 

 Memorandum, and after once or twice asking for it, it then appeared to have been mis- 

 laid by Mr. Torrens. My weak state of health prevented a more active share in this, as 

 in every other measure of the Society at the time; and not being in possession of the lists 

 as approved of, I put it aside, and as it often happens, forgot the business altogether. 



This is the only apology I can offer for the omission on my part. Mr. Torrens must 

 take some share of the blame, for having mislaid or lost the Memo. 

 • I have often felt the want of a more ready communication between Germany and 

 India, and have some months ago, (in the hope of establishing a regular channel of 

 communication and exchange in Oriental publications,) made proposals to the princi- 

 pal publishers there on the very subject; and moreover, personal intercourse between 

 an individual on the point of coming to Calcutta and the Booksellers of Leipsig, 

 Berlin and Bonn, being now lost, as an individual member of the Society, I could wish 

 that the subject should be allowed to remain, as it is at present. 



The Society cannot conveniently undertake the duty of selling books for Booksellers ; 

 and the works printed in Calcutta could be despatched with greater regularity, and 

 with more chance of meeting with a ready sale, if arranged by those who make it 

 their particular business. This much, as to the proposal to interchange publications 

 with Mr. Koenig. 



But the subject, now to my best recollection first revived by Dr. Roer, and likewise 

 mentioned by Mr. Koenig, demands a few words more. 



1. It appears from Dr. Roer's letter, that the works sent by Mr. Koenig have been 

 received, but never distributed. (By the bye, I venture to put in a claim for a copy 

 of each.) 



2. That no returns have been made. If the value of the Books presented by Mr. 

 Koenig be at all considered (about Rs. 500,) he would be entitled to several copies 

 of all our Sanscrit publications now on sale, and this is an additional reason, why for 

 the present it might be better not to dispatch any Books to him for sale. 



I think Mr. Koenig is entitled to, and I beg to propose accordingly: — 

 6. Copies of the Mahabharata, complete, 



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,, Harriwanso, 



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,, Raja Tarangini 



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„ Naishada, 



