1850.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



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III. Resolved, — That, in compliance with the request of the Committee of 

 Management of the Agri-Horticultural Society, the Report be published 

 in the next number of the Literary Society's Journal, and that the Secre- 

 tary to the Agri-Horticultural Society be furnished with a copy of this 

 Resolution. 



Read letter from Captain R. R. W. Ellis, 23d Regiment Bengal Native 

 Infantry, Assistant to the Commissioner in Bundelkhand. 



Jhansi, Bundelkhand, 21th December, 1848. 



My deae Sir, — Being employed under orders from Government in 

 forming a collection of inscriptions, grants of lands, and Vanesavelies or 

 genealogical lists in this part of the country with the view if possible of 

 connecting the history of tribes here with those in other parts of India, 

 and being anxious to refer to the Sanskrit portion of the collection made 

 by Colonel Mackenzie, I take the liberty of soliciting your assistance in 

 procuring me the loan of one of the volumes of the work in which the in- 

 scriptions are I believe bound up or otherwise rendering their contents 

 available for comparisons with the collection now being formed. 



The volume to which I am first anxious to refer to is the one contain- 

 ing the greatest number of grants made by families of the Chandraname 

 Rajpoot tribe to which Khrishna Rao, son ofNarasingha Raja of Vija- 

 yanagar, from A. D. 1508 to 1530, mentioned in p. 293 volume 1st Wil- 

 son's Account of the Mackenzie the greatest care shall be taken 

 of the work, and any stipulation you may consider it necessary to make 

 at the time of making the loan strictly attended to. 



(Signed) R. R. W. Ellis. 



IV. Resolved, — Mr. C. P. Brown having intimated to the Committee 

 that he has written to Captain Ellis in reply to his letter, resolved that 

 he be requested to favor the Committee with a copy of his reply in order 

 that they may decide whether it will be necessary to make any further 

 communication to Captain Ellis. 



Read letter from Messrs. Win. H. Allen and Co., dated London, 23d 

 December, 1848, advising the despatch of periodicals and books per 

 Steamer. 



V. Resolved, — That Messrs. Allen and Co. be informed that the par- 

 cel referred to in their letter, which should have arrived on the Bentinck 

 Steamer on the 30th instant, has not yet come to hand ; and that they 

 be requested to send out the following books for the use of the Society : 



Charles Vernon, a Transatlantic Tale, by Lieut. Col. Senior, 2 vols- 



The Lancashire Witches, a Romance, by W. H. Ainsworth, 3 vols. 



Dr. Birch and his young friends, by Thackeray, 1 vol. 



Anecdotes of the Aristocracy, by J. B. Burke, 2 vols. 



Kit Barn's Adventures, by Mary C. Clark, illustrated by G. Cruickshank. 



