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From Captain Newbold, forwarding a note on the strata cut through 

 in excavating for coal in Wadi Sheraiet, by Hekekyan Bey. 



From the Rev. Mr. Pratt, an additional note on the subject of Iron 

 Tension Bridges, containing a reply to certain remarks upon his former 

 paper by Major Goodwyn. 



From Major Anderson, forwarding a memoir on the Geography of 

 Western Afghanistan. 



Read extracts from an interesting private letter from Captain Kittoe, 

 detailing the progress of his present Archeological researches on the 

 banks of the Gandak, and fowarding a beautiful and spirited sketch of 

 the capital of the column at Mattia, surmounted by a lion. 



From Captain Thuillier, the Meteorological Register for the month 

 of March. 



From Dr. Roer, the subjoined letter containing sundry propositions 

 of the Oriental Section, which were approved and adopted by the So- 

 ciety. 



To Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Senior Secretary, Asiatic Society, Bengal. 



Dated Asiatic Society, the bth March, 1849. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit to you, for the approval of the Council 

 and Society, the subjoined propositions of the Oriental Section with regard to 

 the works next to be printed in the Bibliotheca Indica. 



Extract from a letter from G. H. Bush- . *• With . reference to the paragraph 

 by, Esq., Secretary to Government of In- in the margin, from G. H. Bushby, Esq. 

 dia, to Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Senior Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Secretary Asiatic Society, No. 685, dated to tne Senior Secretary, by which the 

 3 With Serence to the employment of co-operation of the Society in the pub- 

 their grant in the publication of the Vedas, "cation ot the Vedas is requested, the 

 you will be pleased to inform the Society, Section beg to purpose — 

 that the Honourable Court have sanction- To collect, with the least practicable 



ed the Printing of the Rig Veda in Eng- de l ay , MSS. of the text of the In- 

 land. It will therefore not be necessary * nm jLL M Rua V n- . u j a c 

 to undertake the publication of that work *j! r ^ fl > ° A r , Bla( * £ a J ur Veda, and of 

 in Calcutta. There are, however, other Ve- & a yana Acharya s Commentary to the 

 das or portions of them, which it is desirable same, with a view of its early publica- 

 to preserve through the means of the press, tion, editions of all the other Vedas, 

 and which may very properly become the with the exception perhaps of the Athar- 

 objects of the Society , attention. ya? being pre ^ ared F in E F rope# 



2. The Sanhitd and Brdmhana of the black Yajur, accompanied with the 

 commentary, being very extensive, the publication of the work, if undertaken by 

 one individual, would be much delayed. The Section therefore would recommend 



To entrust this work to two Editors, and to publish the Sanhita and the Bram- 

 hana at the same time, so as to print two numbers of the Journal every month. 

 Babu Rajendra has offered to undertake the edition of the Bramhana, while the 

 Secretary is willing to publish the Sanhita. 



3. As the edition of the Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad is nearly finished, and 

 the Kadamvari, which, at the recommendation of the Section, the Society had 

 resolved to print, has since been prepared for the press by a Pundit in Calcutta ; 



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