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Ecport of the Siih- Committee 



[No. ZS, 



Library, together with the portion of the McKenzie collection for- 

 merly received from Calcutta which had previously been deposited 

 in the rooms occupied by the Library of the Society. 



On the 27th January our associate Mr. C. P. Brown made an un- 

 reserved tender of his own unrivalled collection, and proposed that it 

 should be incorporated with those already deposited in the College, 

 and that the whole should be placed under the charge of the Native 

 Librarians hitherto in his ow\\ service. This munificent offer was 

 accepted and the Committee having applied to Government for the 

 necessary authority to employ these men, the sanction of the 

 Supreme Government was obtained for a monthly expenditure of 

 51 Rupees, on that account. 



The Government at the same time called upon the Society to 

 furnish a catalogue raisonne of the collection similar in character 

 to that of the McKenzie MSS. drawn up by Professor Wilson, and 

 farther to report upon the estimated value of the whole collection. 

 This call was repeated sometime afterwards but with special re- 

 ference to Mr. Brown's collection alone. 



It vvas for the purpose of considering how this information was to 

 be supplied that your Sub-Committee was appointed at the Meeting 

 of the 9th September, 1845. 



After having assembled repeatedly at the College and made such 

 an investigation as was at present practicable, we have resolved to 

 submit the result of our inquiries, imperfect as they are, reserving 

 farther details to a date when they may be more completely within 

 our knowledge. And at this stage we desire to offer our best 

 acknowledgments for the aid and information we have at all times 

 received from Mr. Brown. 



The MSS. now united into one Library comprise 5 collec- 

 tions : 



1. That recently transmitted from the East India House. 



2. Mr. Brown's. 



3. That portion of the McKenzie collection received from Bengal. 



4. The old Library of the College of Fort St. George. 



5. The collection of the Literary Society. 



The whole five collections thus brought together and lodged in 

 the College are composed of 5,751 Volumes, of which 2,735 are in 

 Sanscrit, and 3,016 in the modern vernacular languages, according 

 to the following Tabular Statement, 



