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" I have the pleasure to present to the Society a piece of Indo- 

 Greek sculpture, representing a man seated on the earth, the left 

 hand supported on the left knee. The only garments are a pair 

 of short drawers and a species of Hessian boot. The features are 

 nobly developed. It has evidently formed part of the freize of a 

 cornice which has rested upon the head. 



" To denote the weight thus supported, the neck is far buried 

 in the bust, and the muscles are swollen in volume. It must have 

 been executed before the Greek taste carried by the Macedonians 

 to Ariana had been greatly impaired by the barbarism around. 



" I purchased it when in charge of the Hazara of a native, who 

 had found it in an old Port of the Toosufzye at the foot of the 

 Mountains." 



6. From the same gentleman a copy of Pantographia. The 

 following note accompanied the Book : 



" I have the pleasure to send for deposit in the Library of the 

 Asiatic Society, if approved by the Committee, a volume* which 

 I purchased of a man sent by me into Bokhara and the neighbour- 

 ing districts to collect coins previous to quitting the Punjaub. 



u It is a valuable, I believe, rare, work. But my object in plac- 

 ing it with the Society is to enable any person properly authorized 

 to claim it. It has evidently belonged to the enterprising and 

 sagacious traveller, William Moorcroft. 



" It was purchased, so far as I remember, at Cabul. But I 

 could learn from the purchaser no particulars of interest connected 

 with it. 



" Should the Volume be not claimed by any authorised person, 

 I make over my interest in it to the Asiatic Society." 



7. Prom E. Oust, Esq., C. S, copies of his Lives of Eama, and 

 of Alexander the Great, pamphlets. 



8. Prom Captain R. Maclagan, Principal Eoorkee Thomason 

 College, three copies of Dr. Jameison's Eeport on the Botanical 

 Gardens of the N. W. P. 



9. Prom a gentleman (name unknown) the first 15 volumes of 

 the Irish Academy Transactions. 



* The Pantographia, By Fry. 





