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hadeva, in order to expiate the crime of having killed his father. Only one decisively 

 Saivite coin appears in this collection, and is the most recent of the series ; all the 

 others indicating the prevalence of the Jain practice of astrology, and the worship of 

 the Bali or Baliah, which are sidereal spirits. 



(Signed,) James Bird, 



Secretary, Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society. 

 (True Copy,) 



W. ESCOMBE, 



Secretary to Government. 

 The Sub-Secretary stated, that he had received from Dr. Mouac the following 

 letter, with the pamphlets therein alluded to. The pamphlets were ordered to be 

 distributed to the Members of the Committee. 



Mv dear Piddington, — Mr. Latter, just before leaving for Arracan, requested to 

 present the accompanying copies of his ' Note on Budhism' to the Asiatic Society, 

 for the use of the Members of the Committee appointed to carry out the plans deve- 

 loped in the letter from the Honorable Court of Directors. 



18th January. Fked. J. Mouat. 



Read the following letters; — 



(No. 3076.) 

 From the Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to H. Torrens, Esq. Vice 

 President and Secretary to the Asiatic Society, dated Fort William, Mth De- 

 cember, 1844. 



Sir, — With reference to your letter of the 7th March last, recommending on the 

 part of the Asiatic Society, that certain books now in the Calcutta Public Library 

 should be transferred to the charge of the Society, I am directed to forward, for the 

 information of that body, the accompanying copy of a letter, dated the 4th ultimo, from 

 the Curators of the Library. 



At the same time, I am instructed to intimate that, though in the opinion of the 

 Right Honorable the Governor, the existing arrangement cannot be fairly or properly 

 disturbed without the consent of both Associations, yet His Excellency is inclined to 

 think that, if the works in question are connected with Eastern Philology, they would 

 be better placed in the Library of the Asiatic Society, than in the Public Library. 



A. Turnbull, 

 Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



From the Curators of the Calcutta Public Library, to A. Turnbull, Esq. Under 

 Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge, on the part of the Curators, the receipt of 

 your letter, dated 15th April last, enclosing copy of a letter from the Vice President 

 and Secretary to the Asiatic Society, and requesting us to report, for the information 

 of Government, our willingness or otherwise to accede to the proposition for the transfer 

 of the books therein alluded to, from the Calcutta Public Library to that of the 

 Asiatic Society. 



