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3. With regard to Professor Lassen's complaint that the 14 numbers of 

 the Bibliotheca and Dr. Heeberlin's Anthology have not reached him, the 

 Librarian states, that he had despatched them last year along with other 

 books per " Lord Auckland." The Section think it therefore advisable, that 

 Messrs. Allen and Co. should be addressed on this subject, as well as on the 

 cause of delay which appears to have taken place on several other occasions 

 concerning the delivery of the books forwarded to them by the Society. 



4. The Section recommend that those parts of the letters which refer to 

 literary subjects be printed in the Proceedings. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 

 E. Roer, 

 Co-Secretary, Asiatic Society, Oriental Department. 

 Howrah, 1st July, 1850. 



Extract from a letter of Professor Chr. Lassen, dated the 3rd April, 1850. 



My dear Sir,— 1 received some days ago from Mr. Koenig the 6th volume 

 of Raja Radhakant Deb's Sabda-Kalpa-Druma and Dr. Hseberlin's Sanscrit 

 Anthology. Of the 14 numbers of the Bibliotheca Indica, the box contained 

 only those, bearing the address of Mr. Koenig, while those which the Asiatic 

 Society had intended to favour me with, were wanting. I cannot doubt that 

 these books were despatched from Calcutta, and must therefore believe, the 

 neglect lies with Allen and Co., to whom I will write immediately ; but I am 

 much afraid, that I shall not get the books. This is most vexatious to 

 me, as I feel greatly disappointed by being deprived of this collection, of 

 which I cannot expect the Society to spare another copy for me. How 

 slowly, in general, books from India reach us, you will perceive from the fact 

 that I have only now received the February number for 1849, of the Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society, and of Mr. Hodgson's latest writings I have as yet 

 seen nothing. You will much oblige me by thanking the Asiatic Society in 

 my name for Dr. Heeberlin's Anthology, and Raja Radhakant Deb for the 

 6th volume of his Sabda-Kalpa-Druma. 



I am very sorry to learn from your letter of the 8th January last, that 

 neither the first part of the second volume of my Indian Antiquities, nor your 

 diploma, together with the first numbers of the Journal of the German 

 Oriental Society, has reached you. The former had last summer already 

 arrived in London, as the Royal Asiatic Society acknowledged its receipt, 

 and its non-arrival in Calcutta must likewise be ascribed to the neglect of 

 the booksellers. I will in future despatch the books for Calcutta via Ham- 



