1843.] Asiatic Society. 615* 



The following report from the Committee, appointed to conduct the pub- 

 lication of Sir A. Burnes' Drawings, was read and approved of — 



Memorandum relative to the publication of Sir A. Burnes' Drawings. 



The undersigned, who are the remaining members of the Committee appointed in 

 1841, for the publication of Sir Alexander Burnes 5 Draw- 



Original Committee. ings, beg to bring to the notice of the Honorable the Presi- 



Mr. H. Torrens. dent and the Committee of Papers of the Asiatic Society. 



Dr. Spry. 2^ 'r/h at the progress of the work is as follows : — 



Dr. Pearson. . 



Charles Huffnagle. Drawings completed for publication, .... 31 



H. Piddington, Secretary Under examination, and with Messrs. Ballin' 



to the Committee. people or with the Artist, 29 



Being a total of, 



2. The Society's outlay to this day has been as follows : — 



Paid to Artist, 



For paper, (Messrs. Rushton and Bazar,) 



To Primers and Colourmen, 



Total, 4,494 U 



3. Each Plate of 575 impressions, (of which 550 coloured and 25 plain,) 

 costs as follows ; viz. 



Drawing on stone, 



Printing and colouring, 



Paper, 



6U 











850 











1,012 











2,632 















12 

 87 

 16 



Co'a. Rupees, .... 



115 







6,900 



For 60 Sets is, 



4. There remains to complete the pub- 



Total Cost 60 Sets ... 6,900 Nation about, 90 



„ 90 ditto, ... 10,350 If all printed, these will cost at the pre- 



ceding rates, 10,350 



Total Co's Rupees,... 17,250 5> fiut though thege plateg wiU form a grea(; ornament 



to a Volume of Transactions,* they cannot of course be 

 published without letter-press, which it was proposed should be composed of a digest 

 of Dr. Lord's notes, with such additions as may be farther required by the Zoological 

 Curator to the Society, than whom there is no one more capable of performing the 

 task creditably to himself and the Society. The work thus completed, would (like 

 Buchanan's and Russell's Fishes, or Russell's Serpents,) be of standard reference to 

 the naturalist on the Indus, from Scinde to Attock; a foundation for much more labour 

 of detail by future observers; and the best proof which the Society can afford of its de- 

 sire to encourage every branch of the Natural Sciences, and to second, with all its 

 means, the measures of Government when directed to these important objects. 



* With Dr. Cantor's Chusan Zoology and Botany, they will make by far the most splendid work 

 >n Natural History, which has been published in India. 



