1856.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 455 



To W. Geey, Esq., 



Secretary to the Govt, of Bengal, 



Sib,— In reply to your letter No. 1036, dated 21st July, 1856, 

 forwarding the copy of a despatch dated 13th May last, from the 

 Hon'ble the Court of Directors in reference to the management of 

 the Bibliotheca Indica, together with some remarks of the Lieut. - 

 G-overnor upon the heavy liabilities of the Oriental fund, I am 

 directed to request you to inform H. H. the Lieut.-Governor of 

 the readiness of the Society to carry out the orders conveyed by 

 the Hon'ble Court's despatch, in reference to the future application 

 of their grant for the encouragement of Oriental Literature ; but 

 at the same time to request that he will lay before them the 

 enclosed copy of a correspondence which has lately passed between 

 the Society and Professor H. H. "Wilson, as explanatory of the 

 principles on which the Bibliotheca Indica has, of late, been con- 

 ducted. 



I am further instructed to observe, in reference to the remarks of 

 the Lieut.- Governor on the liabilities of the Oriental fund, that the 

 progress of nearly all the works which were in course of publication 

 was suspended some months ago, on its being found that the activity 

 of the several Editors had pushed the publication of the series 

 beyond prudent limits. 



I have, &c, 



The letter was approved and adopted. 



The Secretary made a communication on the part of the Council, 

 in reference to the announcement made at the last meeting by 

 Major Thuillier, of the discovery of a mountain in the Himalayan 

 range, which the computations of Col. Waugh, the Surveyor 

 General of India, had ascertained to be of greater altitude (29,002 

 feet) than Kanchinjinga or any other known height in this range, 

 and therefore in the world. 



Col. Waugh had stated in the letter by which this announce- 

 ment had been made through Major Thuillier, that he had been 

 quite unable to ascertain what was the local name, if any existed, 

 of this mountain mass, (marked XV. in the diagrams of the Trigl. 

 Survey) and that in the absence of such name, which he should of 

 course have adopted, if it could had been ascertained, he assumed 



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