1817.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 861 



The above circular and reports having been read, and the subject 

 commented upon in detail by Sir J. P. Grant, Col. Forbes, Mr. W. 

 P. Grant, Mr. Welby Jackson, Mr. Blyth, Capt. Munro, and Dr. W. 

 B. O'Shaughnessy, it was unanimously decided : — 



1. — That the plates be not published, but that copies be supplied to 

 any member applying for them. 



2. — That Mr. Blyth' s claim be paid in full in consideration of his 

 general services to the Society during the period concerned, and with- 

 out reference to his MS. for the Burnes' drawings. 



3. — That the Senior Secretary be authorized to sell off Company's 

 Paper to pay Mr. Blyth' s demand. 



The Committe of Papers having received a communication from Mr. 

 Piddington, with a postscript by Mr. Torrens, regarding the expenses 

 incurred by the lithographing of the Chusan Zoological drawings by 

 Dr. Cantor, the Senior Secretary was proceeding, by direction of the 

 Committee, to read Mr. Piddington' s letter when that gentleman 

 objected to its being brought forward. The subjoined Report by the 

 Committee was then read : — 



The Committee of Papers beg leave to submit to the Society a communica- 

 tion from Mr. Piddington, dated the 19th June, from which, they have been 

 for the first time led to infer that a portion of the outlay on account of the 

 " Cantor drawings," viz. Co.'s Rs. 2,300, might have been in advances for 

 future work, and not solely for the 12 plates finished by Mr. Bennett, up to 

 July 1846. 



After repeated applications to Mr. Bennett, the Committee have at length 

 ascertained that Mr. Bennett undertook to execute coloured plates of the 

 whole of Dr. Cantor's drawings for the sum of Rupees 4,174. All expenses 

 included. 



The original drawings form a portfolio (bound) of 88 pages of sketches, 

 which could be conveniently lithographed in 61 4to. plates. 



Of the 88 pages, 13, containing the subjects for 12 plates, were delivered to 

 Mr. Bennett and lithographed and coloured by him, being one-fifth of the 

 number of plates he agreed to complete for Rs. 4,174. 



Advances were made to Mr. Bennett (see account) during the progress of 

 these 12 plates, to the amount of Rs. 2,300 ; of these advances 1,700 Rs. were 

 paid on the order of Mr. Piddington, countersigned by Mr. Torrens, between 

 the 0th June 1844, and 23rd December 1845, and Rs. 600, on the order of 

 Mr. Torrens alone from 20th April 1816, to 26th October 1816. Total 

 Rs. 2,300. 



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