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" with him ; and which will probably be placed at our disposal, if we 

 " decide on undertaking its publication. I will hereafter make some 

 '•suggestions as to the historians to be selected, should the Com- 

 " mittee concur generally in the propriety of including this class of 

 " works in the New Series." 



In the minutes of the Committee (26th Sept. 1859) I find the 

 following entry : — 



" Present — The President, Capt. Lees, Rev. J. Long, Babu 

 " Rajendra Lala Mitra, and the Secretaries [Messrs. W. S. Atkinson 

 "andE. B. Cowell]. I. Resolved that a new Series of the Biblio- 

 " theca Indica be commenced. IV. The President proposed that the 

 " Society should undertake to publish some Muhammadan Historians 

 " particularly Zia i Barani (vide Minute attached). Approved of. 

 " Information should be collected respecting MSS. and a competent 

 "editor." 



These recommendations were adopted by the Council of the 

 Society. The Committee soon gave proofs of its continued activity. 

 At the meeting of the 16th January, 1860, a letter was read from 

 Sayyid Ahmad Khan of Muradabad, offering to edit Zia i Barani. 

 It was resolved to accept his offer, and to ask him to send the MS. 

 to Calcutta. 



On the 12th April of the same year, Mr. Grote circulated the 

 following extract of a letter written by Mr. Morley to Mr. E. 

 Thomas — 



"I am much pleased to find that Persian texts are to be printed 

 in the Bibliotheca Indica, and that Mr. Grote begins promisingly. 

 I should not at all object to send my collated transcript of JBailiaqi, to 

 India, if I were sure that it would be printed, but not else. I wrote 

 it, in the first place, faithfully from my own MS. which you have, 

 and in it is noted every variant, without reference to sense, from Sir 

 H. Elliot's MS. and the one in the Paris Library. Printing a correct 

 text from my collated transcript would be an easy task for any 

 painstaking Persian scholar. 



P. S. The Baihaqi amounts to 372 pages, small 8vo., 19 lines 

 in a page." 



The editing of Bailiaqi was happily not interfered with by the 

 death of Mr. Morley. At the meeting of the Committee on the 15th 

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