1847.] Report. 99 



Meanwhile the question of the mode of publication of the Vedas has 

 been referred to the Oriental Sub-Committee, who are as yet unprepared 

 with their Report. The Rev. Dr. Hseberlin has recently intimated 

 to the Committee that he is publishing the Smritis under the Society's 

 authority, and that the whole of the grant for 1847 is thus forestal- 

 led. But as the records of the Society contain no evidence of this 

 publication having been duly authorized, and as it appears that the 

 greater portion of the Smritis have already been published by a Native 

 Editor, the Committee recommend that the work be not further pro- 

 ceeded with, until the Vedas are finished.* 



Lastly, with reference to Mr. Rushby's letter, the Committee of Pa- 

 pers suggest that, should their views meet the approbation of the So- 

 ciety, the Secretaries be directed to draft a reply in corresponding terms 

 and submit the same to the Committee for revisal, and that in this 

 reply the Society should, under the circumstances now elicited, beg the 

 permission of Government to withdraw their former application. 



The financial difficulties above specified render it obviously impracti- 

 cable to carry out the Society's resolution to print Colonel Everest's 

 Trigonometrical observations, as a volume of Transactions. It becomes 

 equally impossible to proceed with the " Burnes" drawings. 



Of these there were in all 146 



These have been lithographed and coloured, 50 



Fishes/ 20 



Mammalia, 9 



Birds, 14 



Reptiles, 7 



50 



Those completed have cost Co.'s Rs. 5682 1 6 



Paid, 5,082 1 6 



Due, • .^. 600 



5682 1 6 

 To finish the whole as directed by the Society in 184 l,f would cost 



' A proposition on this subject received from the Rev. Dr. Haeberlin on the 28th 

 January will be submitted to the next meeting 1 , 

 t See Vol. XJIL Part 2d, Proceedings, page c, 



o 2 



