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pelago at 8 and 5 rupees respectively. As the original price of Strange's Elements is 

 11 rupees per volume, and of Crawford's Indian Archipelago 8 rupees per volume, 

 will you authorize me to purchase those volumes for the Libi'ary, in order to complete 

 the above mentioned works. 



I take this opportunity to submit to you the following list of valuable Oriental works, 

 which I would suggest should be purchased for the Library : — 



1. Die Zigeuner in Europa and Asien, von Dr. A, T. Pott. Erster Theil. Halle. 



1844. 



2. Kammavakya, liber de officiis sacerdotum Buddhicorum. Police, Latine. Auct. 



Fr. Spiegel. 



3. Chr. Lassen, Indische Alterthums-Kunde. Ersten Bandes erste H'alfte. 



4. Panini's Acht Biicher grammatiscber Regeln, von Otto Bbthlinck. 2 B'ande. 



5. Radices Linguae Pracriticae. Ed. N. Delius. 



6' Radices linguae Sanscriticae. Ed. N. L. Westergaard. 



7. Bothlingk, (D.) Erster Versuch iiber den Accent im Sanscrit. 



8. Die Declination im Sanscrit. 



9. Unadi Affixe. 



10. 5 Upanishads aus dem Yayur, Samu and Atharba-Veda. Herausgegeben von 

 L. Paley. 

 Wth January, 1845. E. Roer. 



Resolved — That the Secretary and Librarian be authorized to purchase these 

 works as occasion may present. The work of Count Bijonsterna, entitled Theogony, 

 Cosmogony, and Philosophy of the Hindoos, was also specially ordered to be obtained 

 for the use of the Archaeological Committee. 



The Secretary presented specimen copies of Abdool Ruzzak's work on Suffee 

 terms, edited by Dr. Sprenger, of which those half bound were considered the best 

 for the presentation copies. 



The following note was read : — 



My dear Sir, — My friend Colonel Stacy of the 43rd Regt. having requested me to 

 make over to the charge of the Curator of the Asiatic Society the accompanying 

 ancient Hebrew MS., I have the pleasure to send it per bearer, and shall be fa- 

 vored by your acknowledging the receipt of it. 

 Ballygunge, Wth January, 1845. Rob. Wroughton. 



The MS. to which it refers was handed to the Rev. Dr. Hceberlin, for exami- 

 nation and report. 



Read the following letter and paper from the Secretary to the Government of Bom 

 bay : — 



(No. 3656 of 1844.) 

 To the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. 

 General Department. 



Sir,— 1 am directed by the Honorable the Governor in Council of Bombay to re- 

 quest the acceptance by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, of the accompanying six 



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