238 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [March, 



Financial Department. — (Statistical.) 



No. 37 of 1847. 



Our Governor General of India in Council. 



1. — You having determined to despatch a Mission to Thibet with a view to 

 scientific as well as to other objects, we desire to direct your attention to the 

 expediency of the opportunity being made available to the collection, as far as 

 practicable of every species of information connected with the state, resources, 

 and capabilities of the countries visited. 



2nd. — It will be unnecessary that we should here enter into minute details 

 as in our Despatch in this Department dated the 3rd June, No. 6 of 1846, we 

 have given a general enumeration of the chief subjects of statistical inquiry, 

 and prescribed rules for the guidance of those engaged in such inquiry within 

 the territories under our administration. These rules and suggestions will 

 be equally applicable to inquiries of the like nature prosecuted in other 

 countries, and we wish them to be brought prominently to the notice of the 

 members of the Mission. 



3rd. — With regard to the collections in Natural History, we have given full 

 general instructions in our Despatch in the Public Department, dated 16th, 

 September, No. 17 of 1840. To this Despatch, and more especially to para. 8, 

 we refer you for information on that point. 



4th. — As it may be desirable that the members of the Mission should be 

 apprized of the deficiencies of our Museum, in order if opportunity offers 

 that they should be supplied, we forward in the packet a catalogue of Mam- 

 malia and birds of Nepaul and Thibet, underlined, so as to point out deside- 

 rata ; together with an explanatory Memorandum relating to these and 

 other branches of science. 



We are, &c. 

 (Signed) H. St. George Tucker, (Signed) John Loch, 



J. L. Lushington, John C. Whiteman, 



W. Wigram, Wm. J. Eastwick, 



Russel Ellice, « A. Shank, 



John Cotton, A. Galloway, 



E. McNaghten, W. H. C Plowden, 



Ross D. Mangles, Henry Willock. 



London, the 17 th November, 1847. 



Memorandum, 

 With reference to the Mission to Thibet, attention should be called to the 

 importance which the Court attach to the labours of the scientific department 



