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August 1860, the President announced the decease of Mr. Morley ; 

 but he added that Mr. E. Thomas had seen the Executors, and had 

 secured from them the promise that the MS. of Baihaqi should be 

 sent out to India. On the receipt of Mr. Morley's transcript, it was 

 immediately forwarded, as had been done with Sayyid Ahmad's 

 Firuzshahi, to Major Lees' press. 



In their Annual Report for 1861, the Council announced to the Society 

 that four fasciculi of Zid i Barani and two fasc. of Baihaqi had been 

 issued. The completion of both works was announced in the Annual 

 Report of our Society for 1862. At the annual meeting the President 

 (Mr. A. Grote) remarked : — 



" The series of Persian historians is one, in the progress of which I 

 take a special interest, an interest borrowed from others, but not the 

 less genuine for not being original. The late Sir H. Elliot and Mr. 

 John Colvin were the first movers, as is generally known, on behalf 

 of the publications in question, which the active co-operation of Mr. E. 

 Thomas had just pressed into a project, when the troubles of 1857 

 caused all idea of it to be dropped. It was resumed some three years 

 ago by the Philological Committee at the suggestion, I believe, of 

 myself, since I, as your Secretary, had been all along in close com- 

 munication with those friends whom I have just named. The first 

 work, the Tarikh i Firuzshahi of Zia i Barani, which the Committee 

 undertook to recommend to the Council, was that which was to have 

 opened the series under the auspices of the North- Western Govern- 

 ment. I indulge in the hope that much may yet be done towards 

 carrying out, not only thus partially, but in its entirety, the task to 

 which Sir H. Elliot had devoted himself, and which was occupying 

 him when he died. The mass of valuable materials which he had 

 collected, ought not to be allowed to remain inaccessible to the many 

 who desire to consult them and profit by them." 



On the 23rd April, 1862, Mr. E. B. Cowell proposed that the 

 Tarikh i Baddoni by 'Abdul Qadir be undertaken in the Series of 

 Indian Historians. At the same meeting, Major Lees also, guided 

 by Morley's Catalogue, proposed to edit such portions of the Tabaqdt 

 i Nltciri as had a reference to India. The minute Book contains the 

 following entry : — 



" VI. Read a Memorandum by Capt. Lees connected with the 



