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of reference and consultation for all students of all schools, not the 

 lending library of one alone. 



10. And the Council would here venture to make a few remarks 

 relative to the domicile of the University which they trust will not 

 be thought inappropriate. The true and logical idea of a University 

 will, they fear, run some risk of being lost, if it becomes liable to be 

 identified even in appearance with one of its affiliated Colleges, by 

 being domiciled under the same roof with it. At the 3ame time, any 

 College thus connected with the University would be raised to 

 undue pre-eminence among its fellows. The Council think they are 

 justified in this view by the history of the London University while 

 temporarily housed in University College; and if this juxta-positiou 

 created a serious misconception of the distinct aims and position of 

 each in Great Britain, where the public have been for centuries 

 accustomed to Collegiate and University arrangements, it will be 

 infinitely more likely to do so in India, where they are perfectly novel. 



11. The Council are disposed to think, that the natural domicile 

 of the University if it be housed with any other public body, should 

 rather be with the Asiatic Society. The one body is charged with 

 the serious and responsible task of testing the progress of the higher 

 classes of the students of the country, and of rewarding the success- 

 ful cultivation of Literature and Science. The other is a voluntary 

 association of those, who being themselves devoted to the pursuit 

 of knowledge, have combined for the encouragement of learning and 

 the advancement of science. The Council believe that considerations 

 of this kind materially influenced the arrangement that has been 

 carried out in London, by which the London University is located 

 with the Eoyal Society of London, and other Scientific Societies, in 

 Burlington House. 



12. The combination of the several departments of a national 

 Museum, of the Halls of the University, and of the Meeting .Rooms 

 and Library of the Asiatic Society under one and the same roof, 

 would therefore appear to the Council to be very natural and very 

 desirable. They do not think it needful to urge at length the im- 

 portance of the facility of reference thus afforded, or the value of the 

 mutual assistance which each department of the Museum, and the 

 Society itself, would derive from such an arrangement. These ad- 

 vantages are obvious. 



