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sell duplicates of your library if so pray let me have " Asiri Bibliotheca, Arabo-Hispa- 

 nica, in two volumes," of which you have two copies, you must not charge it too high. 



I have written to Messrs. Ostell for De Sacy's Grammaire Arabe, and Hammer's Ges- 

 chichte der schonenRedekunste, in Persian. If they should not be available at Calcutta, 

 you would oblige me by lending me for a short time the copy of the Asiatic Society ; I 

 intend to have the History of Persian Poetry lithographed, and to compile an Arabic 

 Grammar in Urdoo, and want for a few days De Sacy's book. 



and that officer having requested Dr. Roer to report on the application, 

 received from him the following : — 



To H. Piddington, Esq. Sub-Secretary Asiatic Society. 

 Sir,— With regard to Dr. Sprenger's application I have the honor to report, as fol- 

 lows: — 



As Dr. Sprenger wants Hammer's " Geschichte der schonen Redekunste in Persian," 

 and de Sacy's Arabic Grammar, for the purpose of publishing an Arabic Grammar for 

 die use of the native students in this country, I would recommend to the Committee of 

 Papers to assist him in his useful undertaking, and to allow him the use of those works 

 for a limited period of two or three months. It would, however, not be advisable to 

 accede to Dr. Sprenger's second request of selling him the duplicate copy of Asiri's 

 " Bibliotheca Hispano-Arabico," a work very rare and valuable, and I take this opportu- 

 nity of proposing to the Committee to establish it as a rule not to sell duplicates of valu- 

 able works, as it is of importance to keep always one copy in the library, while the other 

 may be circulated among the members of the Society. 

 29th April, 1845. E. Roer, 



Librarian, 

 I quite agree in, and indeed suggested this arrangement. 



H. Piddington, 



Sub-Secretary, 



which being circulated to the Committee of Papers for their sanction, 

 Dr. Roer's recommendation was adopted, and the books have been 

 forwarded to him by the steamer via Allahabad. 



Read the following letter from the Royal Bavarian Academy of 

 Munich : — 



Henry Torrens, Esq., Vice-President and Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Sir, — Having been favoured, by the intervention of Dr. William Griffith, with your 

 kind declaration dated 23rd May 1844, that you would willingly order an exchange of 

 publications between the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at Munich, I am directed to explain to you how much the Royal Bavarian Academy is 

 gratified by such a literary intercourse. Supposing that the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 does not possess the series of Memoirs published in earlier times by the Bavarian Academy , 

 a complete set of them shall be sent over to the care of Messrs. W. H. Allen and 

 Company, Leadenhall Street, London. In return we take the liberty of announcing to 

 you, what we are wanting in our library from your most precious publications. 



1. Index to the 4th vol. of the Mahabharut complete. 



2. Inaya, 2nd vol. 690 p. 3rd vol. 682 p. 4th vol. 937 p. in 4to. 



3. Jawame-ool-Um-ul-Riazi, 168 p. ; with 1 7 plates 4to. 



