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" The complete success of all these literary undertakings will of course 

 depend upon the interest which learned institutions take in the publication 

 of these works, as I can but little rely upon any assistance from booksellers. 



" The publication of those works, the printing of which has not been com- 

 menced yet, will be interrupted for a time by a labour in which I have been 

 lately engaged ; for I have accepted of a proposal to prepare jointly with 

 the venerable and revered Wilson a third edition of his Sanscrit dictionary. 

 Jt is to contain an index to Panini, all my philosophical and musical indices, 

 and beside Wilson's materials, all that is available in the glossaries (Bopp, 

 Johnson and Lassen, &c. &c.) and lastly, alterations in single points. To give 

 more, is unfortunately not possible, as the book is for a long time out of 

 print, and as it is first necessary, within two or three years to prepare a 

 work, corresponding as much as possible to the present wants. The print- 

 ing will commence after six or eight weeks. 



" I conclude this long letter with a question, which I hope, you will not 

 consider indiscreet, as it is a new request for the liberality of the Asiatic 

 Society. 



" Some of my friends have given me hopes, that the Asiatic Society would 

 perhaps favour me with a copy of the Bibliotheca Indica, if I sent them in 

 return a copy of the works which I am publishing. That this will be done 

 on my part, I hope, I need not assure you, and I only add, that I should 

 feel extremely indebted to the Society, if they could join my name to those 

 who receive from the liberality of the Society those editions, so important 

 and so rare in Europe.'* 



The President gave notice of a motion for the next general meet- 

 ing, that the council be authorised to expend, out of the Oriental Fund, 

 a sum not exceeding Us. 500, in getting such of the Persian, Arabic 

 and Urdu MSS. as require to be newly bound, rebound, and also in 

 getting such of them as require transcription, transcribed. 



The President also read such of the new rules as had been amended 

 in the course of the discussions at the special meetings, and on his pro- 

 posal they were confirmed and ordered to be printed. 



He also announced to the Society that one of their Members, Mr. 

 B. H. Hodgson, has been elected a corresponding Member of the 

 Academie des Inscriptions et belles lettres. 



The Librarian and the Curator in the Geological Department having 

 submitted their usual monthly reports the meeting adjourned. 

 Confirmed, May 7th, 1851. 



J. COLVILE. 

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