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tary, an arrangement now superseded by a better plan of management, its property now 



vesting in the Society. 

 I am directed to acknowledge with the expression of our sincere gratification the pro- 

 Bekker's Arist. mised donation as per margin, and to state that the Society thank - 



Boerkh's Ther. Inst, fully avails itself of the offer to supply from your Royal Academy 



of Science, the Transactions from 1825 to 1843, and will gladly continue to interchange 



its own transactions for them in future. 



I take this occasion of stating that you will, I trust, receive by the beginning of next 



Istallahat-i-Soofeea, Ed. year, one or two of the latest Oriental publications as per margin. 



Dr. A. Sprenger. The Society will also despatch when complete a Sanscrit Antholo- 



Tareekh-i-Nadiree, Ed. . \ * * 



Soc Asi. Ben. gy now in tne press, edited by Dr. Haeberhn, one of its mem- 



bers. The second volume of the Naishada, which will make that work perfect, will be 

 our next undertaking, and will I hope shortly be commenced on. 



I have, with the expression of my high respect and consideration, the honour to sub- 

 scribe myself, &c. 



H. Torrens. 

 Read the following letter : — 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Seciety, Calcutta. 



§ IR In forwarding No. VIII. of our Journal for the acceptance of the Bengal Asiatic 



Society, may I request you will do me the favor of submitting to the Committee of your 

 Society the enclosed Prospectus of our Journal, which will in future be published by sub- 

 scription, and not from the funds of our Society as heretofore. In intimating this may I 

 further request your good offices in obtaining on your side of India subscriptions to the 

 work ; which will be forwarded per Banghy to any part of Bengal. I shall feel extremely 

 obliged if you will have the kindness to send back the subscription list at your earliest 



convenience. 



James Bird, 



Secretary, 

 Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic £ 

 Society, 28i/i July, 1845. > 



Ordered that the letter and Prospectus be printed in the Proceedings, 



as being the best assistance which the Society can give, and that 



names of subscribers be received by the Society for the Bombay A. S. 



Prospectus. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, edited by the Secretary. 

 The Committee of the Society, appointed at the Meeting of the 12th December last, to 

 audit the accounts and for other financial objects having reported that the expenses of 

 the Quarterly Journal can be no longer debited to the current Income of the Society, but 

 must be liquidated from special subscriptions to this individual object ; the Secretary begs 

 leave to intimate his willingness to carry on this publication under the auspices of the 

 Society, provided nearly sufficient subscriptions, among the Resident, Non-Resiclent 

 Members of the Society and others, are obtainable for defraying the expenses of publica- 

 tion. Situated so favourably as we are in Western India, for investigating and illustra- 

 ting peculiar and particular objects of research relative to Hindu Mythology, Philology, 

 and History, we are in possession of exclusive advantages for acquiring novel and useful 

 information on the Ethnography of the various Asiatic races and regarding the Geography 



