732 Asiatic Society. [No. 140. 



And the following extract of a private letter from M. Mohl, addressed to 

 Mr. Piddington, as Acting Secretary of the Society, in reference to the in- 

 complete presentation of works in the Society's Library. (See Proceedings 

 of July.) 



My dear Sir, — Allow me first to thank you for the part you have had the 

 goodness to take in my election as Foreign Memher of your Society ; it is an honour 

 which 1 appreciate very highly. I will try to answer on all the points on which you 

 have written to our friend Troyer. 



1st. The debt of the French Government to the Asiatic Society tor copies of the 

 Vedas must by this time be paid. It ought to have been done a long time ago. 



2d. The books you want shall be bought and sent very shortly. I see that there 

 is not money enough at the account of your Society, because the delay of the box 

 containing the 4th vol. of the Mahabharat has stopt the sale of the book for a 

 long time, and most people who have bought the 1st vol. have got impatient and sent 

 to London for the last volume. But the books shall be bought notwithstanding. 



3d. You have sent a list of books which have arrived incomplete ; I will try to 

 explain the matter as far as I can. 



Agassiz, Hist. Nat. des Poissons ler livraison. I do not think this was sent by our 

 Society. 



Cuvier Hist, des Poissons vol. i. — xvi. If a further vol. should have appeared, 

 it shall be sent. 



Quatremere Hist, des Mongols, vol. i. Is all that has appeared. 



Mohl, Livre des Rois de Firdousi, vol. i. The second vol. has appeared and shall 

 be sent. 



Histoire Generale des Huns, vols. i. and ii. I am sure this was not sent by us. 



Quatremere, Histoire des Sultans Mamelouks 1. et 2. Is all that has appeared, but 

 a new vol. is coming out. It was not sent by us, but most likely by the Translat- 

 ing Fund in London, whose property it is. 



Duheux, Chronique de Tabari, vol. i. Is all that has appeared, the second vol. 

 is printing; it is the Translating Fund's property. 



Jacqu.em.ont, Voyage dans l'lnde, 1 3 livrs. There have appeared 45 livrs. till now. 

 It was most likely sent by the French Minister of Public Instruction, and 1 will en- 

 quire why the rest has not yet been sent, and try to get it. 



Vevdidad Sadi, by Burnouf, nine numbers were sent by us ; it is all that appeared, 

 but the last number is printing, and shall be sent. 



L'Espagne Artistique, 1 livr. was not sent by us. 



Harivansa by Langlois, must have been sent by the Translating Fund, whose 

 property it is. 



Description de V Egypte. I have no idea who has sent this. I asked about six 

 years ago M. Thiers, then Minister of the Interior, to present a copy of it to your 

 Society ; it is possible he sent it through the Marine. I will try to get it completed, 

 but am not sure to be able to do it. I know it is a most complicated business to get 

 a copy of this work. 



