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nearly completed ; without, so far as I know, considering how or where 

 it is to be published. 



I think that this Society might give expression to their sense of his 

 indefatigable labour, and proffer their assistance in the forthcoming 

 publication. A list of the Tibetan Books and Manuscripts in the 

 Library would be valuable to Mr. Jaeschke, and perhaps there may be 

 duplicates. He expressed his grateful thanks for the good offices of 

 the Lieutenant- Governor of the Punjab, (Mr. McLeod,) in lending him 

 various Sanscrit and Tibetan works, and in assisting him in other ways. 



Your's truly, 

 (Signed) H. Cleghorn, M. D. 

 Calcutta, Wth January, 1865. 



Dr. Cleghorn said he had visited Dr. Jaschke's school, (which was 

 the only Government-aided school north of the snows,) and had seen 

 twenty-two Tibetan boys reading, and a number of girls also receiv- 

 ing instruction. Dr. Jaschke had printed the books on the table with 

 the most slender appliances, viz. three broken lithographic stones, 

 which he had received from the Lawrence Asylum. He was now 

 engaged in the preparation of a Tibetan Dictionary, but had made no 

 preparation for publishing his work when complete. He would be 

 greatly indebted to the Society for any assistance it could afford, by the 

 loan of Tibetan works in its library or otherwise. 



The President said he felt no doubt that the Society would be glad 

 to afford Dr. Jaschke every assistance in its power. 



11. From Mrs. David Wood, a Turbo marmoratus. 



The Secretary read the following extract from a letter from Dr. 

 Falconer to Mr. Grote, on some recent discoveries at Gibraltar. 



Off Cape St. Vincent, 2UK October, 1864. 



My dear Grote, 



" Here I am on my way to Gibraltar with a friend, to look after the 

 interests of some very ancient human and otherremains from a recently 

 discovered Cave in Gibraltar. 



Besides these, a human skull has turned up from the rock, of extreme 

 antiquity ; but the precise origin of it is unknown. By the internal 

 characters it goes very low in the scale, and in some respects nearer the 

 monkey than anything yet seen, but still distinctly human. 



* 5)1 * * * * * 



(Signed) H. Falconer. 



