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" I beg 1 you to expresg to the Society my high sense of the honor 

 it has done me in conferring upon me this far more than adequate 

 reward tor my poor services as its President. 



" I have, &c, 

 (Signed) " J. W. Colvile." 



" W. S. Atkinson, Esq." 



Communications were received : 



1. From Captain H. Strachey, some additional memoranda 

 upon the fate of Herr Adolphe Schlagintweit, with a suggestion 

 that the Society should address the Government to enquire 

 whether any steps have been taken officially to ascertain the fate of 

 the traveller, and to recover his papers and property. 

 Note by Gapt. H. Strachey. 



The proceedings of the Asiatic Society for November, 1858, con- 

 tain a memorandum by Capt. H. Strachey, dated 20th August, re- 

 garding the fate of Herr Adolphe Schlagintweit, and the recovery 

 of his collections, instruments, and manuscripts. Captain Strachey 

 has subsequently obtained some further information on the same 

 subject, which is given in the accompanying memorandum, No. 2, 

 dated January, 1859. This information is still very meagre, but 

 goes to confirm the other numerous reports of the traveller's death, 

 as given in the annexed extracts from the up-country newspapers. 



As it does not appear that Government has yet taken any steps 

 for the recovery of Schlagintweit's effects, or of instituting more 

 particular enquiries regarding his fate, as suggested in the conclud- 

 ing paragraphs of Captain Strachey's first memorandum, or other- 

 wise, it is recommended that the Asiatic Society do address the 

 Government on the subject, and solicit their action. 



In the continued absence of instructions from Government 

 Captain H. Strachey has now himself collected and forwarded to 

 Messrs. H. and E. Schlagintweit in Berlin, all manuscripts recovered 

 in Kumaon, and such of the instruments (chiefly German Ther- 

 mometers) as appeared to be worth transmission. None of the 

 collections have come within his reach. 



Memorandum No. 2. 



Man Singh and Nain Singh Milmal of Jwar in Kumaon, left 

 Adolphe Schlagintweit at Peshawur at the end of December, 1856, 



