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bent duty to address you, Sir, begging to accept my best thanks for your kind mediation 

 in forwarding the valuable gift to Berlin, and to oblige me by expressing to the Royal 

 Society, my sense of deep gratification at the reception of a present for the Royal Library, 

 which proves doubly valuable at a moment when the study of Eastern lauguages and 

 literatures in Berlin is taking a new development by the acquisition of the whole manu- 

 script collection of the late Sir Robert Chambers, which from His Royal Majesty's 

 munificent donation has been incorporated into the institution under my care. 



The Royal Library having hitherto not been in possession of any volume of the Inaya, 

 and now received only the volumes 2, 3, and 4, I should feel exceedingly thankful, if by 

 your kind interference the first volume was to be added to the gift of the Royal Society, 

 or perhaps could be procured at our expense, in which case I should be happy to get, if 

 possible, also the 17th volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society, the only which 

 we have hitherto be. n unable to procure, and the volumes 1—7 of the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society ; the Royal Library being in possession of the Asiatic Researches, T. 1 — 

 16, 18—20 (P. 1, 2,) and the Journal, New Series, T. 8—11, (P. 1, 2.) Mr. Wattenbach 

 of the house of Huschke, Wattenbach, and Co. at Calcutta, would on account of the 

 Royal Library willingly repay the expenses incurred by you. 



His Excellency intends writing himself in order to thank you for the gift, which has 

 been disposed of in favour of our institution and of the Library of the University at Halle, 

 and proposes to send you as a proof of his sense of gratitude, several works published by 

 order and under the auspices of Government, viz. the complete edition of Aristoteles by 

 Benker, and the Thesaurus Inscriptionum by Boeckh. As member of the Royal Acade- 

 my of Science, whose library is distinct from the Royal Library, I may add, that we should 

 be happy to present you also with a copy of our Transactions from 1825 to 1843, 25 vols, 

 in 4to. if you would like to receive them; and perhaps the Asiatic Society would agree to 

 a continual exchange of their Transactions, the library of the Royal Academy being- 

 hitherto not in possession of any of them. 



I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, 



Sir, Your obedient servant, 



Dr. Pertz. 

 Chief Librarian of His Majesty and Counsellor of Government. 



Berlin, 10th June, 1845. 



Reply. 

 To His Prussian Majesty's Chief Librarian. 



Sir,— I am charged to express to you the high satisfaction of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal at finding that their Oriental publications have been so acceptable to the excel- 

 lent Institution at the head of which you preside, and that His Majesty has been pleased 

 to direct His Ex. Dr. Eichhorn to take an occasion of acknowledging them. 



I shall have pleasure in procuring if possible, and forwarding free of cost, the 1st Vol. 

 of the Inaya. The 17th Vol. of our Transactions, I am directed to take an early oppor- 

 tunity of sending to you from the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



The early numbers of the Society's Journal will, I fear, be procured with difficulty, 

 and as they are the property of myself in succession to my lamented predecessor, James 

 Prinsep, not I am afraid without my being compelled to draw on Huschke, Wattenbech, 

 and Co. for their cost. This is owing to the Journal having been up to the commence- 

 ment of the year 1843 published as the property, and at the risk of the Society's Secre- 



