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making his salary up to 55 Rupees, if, on the winding up of his 

 affairs, his work should be found satisfactory ; but there is no 

 allusion to such a promise in any of the documents produced by 

 Hurkishen, and one of them distinctly states his pay to have been 

 raised to 30 Rupees, from the 1st of May, 1857, Hurkishen himself 

 admitting that it was only 25 before that. I should myself consider 

 30 Rupees as adequate to the style of his work. Since the begin- 

 niug of January, 1858, Hurkishen has done next to nothing in the 

 way of observation or collection, and has been for a large part of the 

 time at his own home ; on the other hand, he has been put to some 

 inconvenience and kept out of other employment. For this I think 

 that a sum of one hundred Rupees (100) would be a fair remune- 

 ration. There also remains due ten Rupees (10) to the Assistant 

 Krishna, No. 10 of the 2nd list, for wages from 1st December 1857, 

 to 5th January, 1858, at nine Rupees per month, and ten Rupees 

 (10) to Compassy Punchum, No. 11 of the same, for wages for 

 March and April, 1858, at five Rupees per month. 



22. I am of opinion that if Adolphe Schlagintweit does not 

 return to India, or at least to Ladak, within the next three months, 

 his return this way should be no longer expected ; that any of his 

 establishments still extant should be finally discharged, and their 

 accounts closed, aud that all collections, manuscripts, and graduated 

 instruments should be got together, sealed, packed, and sent to 

 England, to be kept at the London Custom House unopened till 



called for by his brothers Herman and Robert (from 

 Behrew. Berlin*), who should be at the same time advised to 



make arrangements for receiving them. This is 

 the best way of recovering some value from what has cost the 

 Government much money, of furthering the interests of science, 

 and doing justice to the Schlagintweits themselves. I think that all 

 graduated instruments whatever should be sent home, because the 

 final reductions of many observations depend upon the correction of 

 instrumental errors which are sometimes ascertainable only by a 

 subsequent reference to the instruments themselves, some useless 

 things may be included thus, but in the absence of the Schlagin- 

 tweits, it is safer to make the rule absolute aud send all. 



23. It would be very desirable to have all the collections repack- 



