and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 171 



lithographed copy, in 2 vols, of the Vandidad, in the Zand language, but 

 Gujarathi character, with a Gujarathi translation, paraphrase, and co m- 

 ment, by Aspandiarji Framji and other learned Dasturs of the Kadmi sect 

 of Parsis. Of this work, the Society has had 25 copies lithographed 

 at an expense of upwards of 1,000 Rupees, with the object of preserving 

 a work now become rare in MS. and of distributing it amongst the prin- 

 cipal Libraries in Europe and Asia. I shall be happy to receive an acknow- 

 ledgment of the receipt of the work. The Society have also directed the 

 Izashni, and Vispard, which compose the doctrinal standards of the 

 Parsi faith, and the larger liturgy in use among the Zooroastrians, which 

 will be forwarded as soon as ready. 



The MSS. from which these works are copied are in possession of the 

 Rev. Dr. John "Wilson, late President and at present Honorary Pre- 

 sident of the Society. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



(Signed) John G. Malcolmson, 



Secretary B. B. R. A. S. 

 Resolved,— That the Society's thanks be communicated through the 

 Secretary to the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society for the same. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic 

 Society, dated 27th December, 1843. 



Bombay Asiatic Society's Rooms, 

 27th December, 1813. 



To 



The Secretary Literary Society, 



Madras. 



Sm, 



"With reference to my letter, dated 7th September last, I have the 

 honor to inform you that a copy of Izashni or Yacna, and the Vispard, 

 enclosed in the same parcel with the Vandidad, have been this day ship- 

 ped on board the Royal Saxon, Captain James Crawford, to your address, 

 for presentation to the Literary Society of Madras. The same parcel also 

 contains two copies of the late Dr. Forbes' Paper on the Nature and History 

 of Plague in the North Western Provinces of India, from myself, of which 

 I have to request the Society's acceptance of one, and that the other be 

 presented to the Medical Society. 



I regret that so much delay should have taken place in the transmission 

 of the Vandidad, to the cause of which it is not now requisite to advert. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



(Signed) John G. Malcolmson, 



Secretary B. B. R. A. S. 



