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India is one which is eminently adapted in the present state of 

 Science and Education in India, to promote the interests of both, 

 yet that they are far from wishing it to be understood that their 

 own is the only scheme to which they are willing to lend their aid. 

 To advance the interests of Science in the most effectual way is 

 their sole desire, and they will gladly assist in furthering any 

 scheme which may appear better calculated to effect this great 

 object, provided it be compatible with the trusts confided to their 

 care. 



The Council are fully aware that the pressure of financial diffi- 

 culties at the present time must prevent the immediate adoption of 

 any comprehensive plan involving a large outlay of money, but they 

 desire to lay before you the facts of the case, and the arguments in 

 favor of some such arrangements as they have proposed, believing 

 that an expression of opinion on the part of Her Majesty's Secre- 

 tary of State for India in favor of such a scheme would tend in no 

 small measure to insure its ultimate success. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



(Sd.) W. S. Atkinson, 



Secy. Asiatic Society. 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OE INDIA. 



Asiatic Society' 's Booms, Calcutta, dated 8th October, 1858. 



To C. Beadon, Esq., 



Secy, to the Govt, of India, Home Dept. 

 Sir, — I am instructed by the Council of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, to communicate to you, for submission to the Honorable the 

 President in Council, that at a General meeting of the Society, held 

 on the 6th May, 1857, the following resolution, based upon a report 

 from the Committee of Natural History (of which a copy is annex- 

 ed), was proposed by the Council for adoption by the Society, and 

 was passed at a numerously attended meeting — 



" That the Council be authorized to enter into communication 

 with the Government on the subject of the foundation at Calcutta 



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