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If any of the Paris Society's books should have been sold in Calcutta, I beg you 

 will let me know the amount that I may deduct it from the above sum due to you. 



I have remarked that in the advertisements which you are so kind as to put in 

 the Journal of your Society, the Aboulfeda is marked 8 rupees, but it ought to be 

 15 rupees. 



I have asked you formerly to send parcels or boxes of books by French ships, but 

 I find so much irregularity in the manner of delivering them, that I think the best 

 will be in future to send all to London. It will cost us something in duty and 

 commission, but at least we shall get the parcels sooner and by far more surely. 



In consequence of the new arrangements which we have been obliged to make on 

 the death of M. Cassin, our former agent, I find some difficulty in superintending 

 the sale of the books of your Society. I think it would be to the advantage of the 

 sale, if you would allow me to commission M. Duprat with it. M. Duprat is our 

 Society's bookseller, since madam Pondy Dupin has retired from her business, and 

 is a most honest man. I could audit his account every year, just as I did M. 

 Cassin's. He would be obliged to increase the prices a little, but not much, and I am 

 convinced your Society would gain by the change. Of course if your Society should 

 wish that the actual arrangement should continue, we will go on as before, but my 

 own opinion is that M. Duprat will sell more of your books than we do. 



Could you buy for me two copies oiM. Elliot's supplement to the Glossary, Agra, 

 1845 ? It is a most excellent book and I and M. Burnouf are very anxious to 

 get it. I should be very happy too, if you could buy for me a copy of the Calcutta 

 Agricultural Society's papers. I have often written to England to get them, but 

 have never been able to buy them ; there is most likely many a book published in 

 India which we should be happy to get, but we learn their expense only by accident. 



I am, Dear Sir, 



Your's very truly, 



Jules Mohl. 



Resolved that this letter be referred to the Secretaries for special re- 

 port, and that information be solicited from those officers as to the state 

 of the Society's accounts with the several agencies entrusted with the 

 sale of the Society's publications. 



Proposed by G. A. Bushby, Esq., seconded by Dr. Hseberlin, and 

 resolved, 



That the Secretaries be requested to report on the stock of books 

 belonging to other Societies or individuals intrusted to this Society for 

 sale, also as to the state of preservation of the books. 



Head a letter from Cecil Beadon, Esq., under-Secretary to the Gover- 

 ment of Bengal, forwarding a map of Pooree, in 9 parts, for the museum 

 of Economic Geology. 



