1855.] Proceedings of tlie Asiatic Society. 589 



Charles E. Prinsep, two papers found amongst the papers of the 

 late James Prinsep. The one a letter dated Dacca, 16th April, 

 1838, from L. E. Stacy to the late James Prinsep, on a sculpture, 

 commemorative of Buddhist ascendancy, purchased near Muttra ; 

 the other paper was on the birth of Buddha by J. Low, and 

 revised by him in Province "Wellesley, in July, 1837 ; both papers 

 being understood to be the manuscripts of communications pub- 

 lished by the Society. 



Mr. Houstoun stated he had a great number of other papers 

 which he proposed similarly presenting to the Society, as soon as the 

 labours of other members, now engaged on them, enabled him to 

 do so. 



Mr. Houstoun brought to notice and presented to the Society a 

 copy of a paper by Mr. H. T. Prinsep, proposing the publication, by 

 the two principal Pandits of the late J. Prinsep, in a work as parti- 

 cularized in the paper ; all the inscriptions of Asia already published 

 or remaining to be published by the Asiatic Society or elsewhere as 

 far as obtainable, and gave notice that he would at the next meet- 

 ing move : 



1. To be informed if the original paper was with the Society, 

 and if so, that it be produced and published in memory of the high 

 services and eminent attainments of the late J. Prinsep and in com- 

 pliment to his family, and as a step towards obtaining the co-opera- 

 tion of the public to Mr. H. T. Prinsep's object, as many parties 

 would gladly aid in that object ; and he further called for the pro- 

 duction of any traces there might be of any such paper, if the 

 original were not with the Society or to be found, as his copy 

 appeared to have been taken from an unre vised draft ; and asked 

 for a statement of the step that had been taken in consequence of, 

 or any way appertaining to, the object of that paper, and also pro- 

 posed that the particular aid he would specify and every aid, induce- 

 ment and encouragement, be given to the only surviving one of the 

 two pandits to undertake such a work, and to any one else if that 

 party cannot now undertake it. 



2. For the production of all Mr. Heatly's unpublished contri- 

 butions towards the development of the mineral resources of India, 

 and a list of ail unpublished MSS, in the Society's possession, and 



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