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nature. The sudden summons of this enterprising young Officer, Ensign Maisey, 

 to march with his corps to the frontier, during the late war with the Sikhs, interrupt- 

 ed his operations, and left them in a very incomplete state. There is, however, good 

 reason to hope that he will be able to renew his enquiries during the next cold 

 season. 



3. In the mean time the Lieut. -Governor believes that he is best consulting 

 the wishes of the Honourable Court in forwarding to the Society this incomplete 

 account, in the hope that if they consider it worthy of publication they will give it a 

 place in their Journal. The progress which has been made will thus not be lost, 

 and this curious series of temples will, at any rate, be prominently brought to the 

 notice of those who are skilled and experienced in such researches. 



4. The Lieut. -Governor begs to be favored with 50 Copies of any publications on 

 the subject which the Society may put forth. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



J. Thornton, 

 Secretary to Government, North Western Provinces. 

 Agra, the 19th May, 1846. 



Ordered that the special thanks of the Society he returned for the 

 communications above alluded to, and that they be published in an early 

 number of the Journal. 



Read the following extract of a letter to the Secretary from the 

 Hon'ble J. Thomason, dated May 13th, 1846. 



I hope to be able to send you soon another interesting account of a number of 

 Buddhist cave temples or monasteries discovered at a place called Mundab in the 

 Rewah country, about 100 miles clue south of Mirzapore. T know not whether 

 the existence of these caves has ever been mentioned before. There are several of 

 them. From the drawings I have seen, they are like the Vihara caves of Central 

 India, but as yet no inscriptions have been found. 



Read a letter from Dr. Wise, dated Dacca, 23d February, 1846, ap- 

 prising the Secretary of the despatch of the copies of his Commentary on 

 the Hindu System of Medicine, which were subscribed for by the 

 Society. Dr. Wise further stated the price to be ten rupees a copy. 



Read the following extracts of a letter to the Secretary from Mrs. 

 Ballin :— 



T beg to send Mr. Ellis to receive your orders respecting the remaining sets of 

 drawings of Sir A. Burnes' work (Gin number) which are to be rectified, and also for 

 the 7 sets that have been at the Society's rooms since February last for examination' 



I beg leave to bring to your notice, that more than three years have expired since 

 these drawings were originally sent by me for examination, and it was only within 



