1849.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 757 



Rig Veda amounts already to 640 pages. The first volume will appear 

 about Easter. Boethlinck in Petersburg is busy with Tibetan and Jakutan 

 studies. Professor Brockhaus publishes Burnouf's Vendidad Sade in Latin 

 characters, together with a complete glossary, which will make the Zend 

 accessible to the learned." 



Extract from a letter ofProfessor Lassen. 



" I hope the Society have received the second part of my Indian Anti- 

 quities. The second volume is now printing, and pretty far advanced. I 

 trust, I shall have finished within the next two months the first part of this 

 volume, containing the history till Vikramaditya. This part of Indian his- 

 tory is one of the most interesting, as we have so exact records on the history 

 of Alexander, and as there is so rich a source of information in the inscrip- 

 tions of Asoka, which in my opinion are hitherto not properly made use of. 



The following information on the progress of the labours relative to Vedaic 

 literature may be interesting to you ; the first volume of Mueller's Rig Veda 

 is nearly completed. Weber in Berlin publishes the white Yajur with a 

 commentary of Madhava. Dr. Aufrecht at Berlin is occupied with the pre- 

 paratory labours of an edition of the Atharva. We may therefore hope, 

 that in a short time the Veda, in the strict sense of the word, with the excep- 

 tion of the black Yajur, will be published. There are, however, several works 

 of importance, necessary for its explanation, still to be published, by the 

 edition of which the Asiatic Society would do a great service to Vedaic 

 literature." 



From Rev. Mr. Mackay, requesting a copy of tlie Asiatic Researches 

 and some parts of the Journal, for the Free Church Institution. 



Ordered that the Society regret that they are unable to grant the 

 request, as it is contrary to the rules of the Society. 



From Capt. J. D. Cunningham, "Note on the Limits of Perpetual 

 Snow in the Himalayas." (Ordered to be printed in the Journal). 



From Captain Thos. Hutton — " Notices of some Land and Fresh 

 water shells occurring in Afghanisthan." (Ordered to be printed in the 

 Journal) . 



From J. W. Laidlay, Esq. V. P. " Comparative Vocabulary of the 

 Sgha and Pgho dialects of the Karens ; with observations on the gram- 

 matical peculiarities of those languages." (Ordered to be printed in 

 the Journal). 



From H. Piddington, Esq. examination of a new mineral, Haugh- 

 tonite. 



