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Ordered, that the Society regret that they cannot comply with Mr. 

 Taylor's request, in consequence of having refused similar applications. 



From Dr. Roer, Secretary to the Oriental Section, the following 

 letter : — 



To J. W. Laidlay, Esq. Secretary Asiatic Society. 



Dated Asiatic Society, the 28th March, 1849. 

 Sir, — I have the honour to return to you my Report of the 6th ult. and 

 to state for the information of the Council and the Society, that the Oriental 

 Section have agreed to the proposals therein submitted, with the exception 

 of the first, concerning the MSS. to be lent to Dr. Miiller, which they 

 beg to refer to the decision of a General Meeting of the Society. 



2. With regard to the third proposal, it is the view of the Section, that 

 Mr. Koenig's request should be complied with on the condition, that he pays 

 for the copies. No opinion, however, has been offered on the Oriental works 

 which I proposed for exchange, and which ought to be in our Library, and I 

 therefore beg leave to recommend the purchase of them by the Society. 

 I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your most Obedient Servant, 

 E. Roer, 

 Co-Secretary Asiatic Society > Oriental Department, 



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

 Dated Asiatic Society, the 5th February, 1848. 



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

 Council and the Asiatic Society, a report on the following subjects : — 



1. Dr. Miiller, the editor of the Sanhita of the Rig Veda, has repeatedly 

 expressed to me his anxious desire to obtain some more MSS. for the 

 second Ashtaka of the Rig Veda, if possible the MS. of a private Library, 

 as those of public Libraries are almost all copies of the same original, I 

 have not succeeded in procuring a MS. of this kind, but it occurs to me, 

 that the Society is able to assist Dr. Muller in his undertaking by granting 

 him the loan of the Rig Veda Sanhita with commentary, in its Library, and 

 also of the parts of the Rig Veda that have been copied at Benares for the 

 Society. The MS. of the Society, unless compared with other MSS., is 

 quite worthless, as it is very incorrect and defective. Yet it has been of great 

 use to me, since it contains sometimes passages which are not met with in 

 any other MS., and I therefore believe it would be a valuable assistance also 

 to Dr. Muller. Although it is not usual to lend the MSS. of our Library 

 to gentlemen not residing in Calcutta, 1 think the Society should make an 

 exception on an occasion as the present; for beside, that every learned 



