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Royal Society of London, Somerset House, Nov. 19, 1835. 



Sir, 



T am directed by His Royal Highness the President and Council, to 

 acquaint you, for the information of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, that 

 Hi, Majesty the King has been pleased to grant two Gold Medals, of 

 the value of Fifty Guineas each, to be awarded by the Royal Society 

 on the day of their Anniversary Meeting in each succeeding year, for 

 the most important discoveries in any one principal branch of Physical 

 and Mathematical knowledge. 



His Majesty having graciously expressed a wish that scientific men 

 of all nations should be invited to afford the aid of their talents and 

 researches, 1 am accordingly directed by the Council to announce to 

 you, Sir, that the Royal Medals for 183S, will be awarded in that year, 

 the one to the author of the most important unpublished paper in 

 Ckemistr//, which mayha\e been communicated to the Royal Society 

 for insertion in their Transactions, after the present date and prior to 

 the month of June in the year 1838; — the other, to the author of the 

 most important unpublished paper in Physics, which may have been 

 communicated to the Royal Society for insertion in their Transactions, 

 after the present date and prior to the month of June in the year 1838*. 

 I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 



Your very obedient humble servant, 



Charles Konig, For. Sec. ft. <&, 



The subjoined letter has been received, and the Editor lost no time ia 

 putting the work referred to, in the hands of a competent judge, whose 

 analysis of the work, necessarily brief, as short time was permitted for 

 the task, will be found under the head of Notices of Books. We hope 

 that sufficient has thus been done to point out to orientalists of the 

 South of India, the value and importance of Mr. Tumour's researches, 

 and that scholars will give him the aid and advice he requires at their 

 hands. 



Kandy, July 8, 1S36. 



Sir, 



I have to beg the favour of your presenting the accompanying pam- 

 phlet to the Literary Society of Madras. It is intended, as explained 

 in the Introduction, to serve as a prospectus to an historical work, in 

 the publication of which I am now engaged. 



Convinced of the utter hopelessness of success in attracting attention 

 to a publication connected with oriental literature, which in other hands 

 has already disappointed public expectation, I have adopted the pre- 

 sent preparatory course, with the view of eliciting the criticism of 

 oriental societies and scholars on this particular work, before it issues 



