1847.] 



of the Literary Society. 



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No. 1 accompanying this Report and a translation of the preface to 

 Mr. Brown's original Telugu Catalogue, for which the Sub-Oommittee 

 are indebted to that Gentleman, and which shows the manner in 

 which these lists have been prepared, forms enclosure No. 2. A 

 third statement (enclosure No. 3,) exhibits the books presented by- 

 Mr, Brown distinguished from those contained in the other collec- 

 tions under their several heads. 



The McKenzie MSS. have been partly and the Sub-Committee 

 think sufficiently described by the Rev. Mr. Taylor, whose catalogue 

 has been published in the Society's Journal. 



A general notice of the whole of the materials collected by the late 

 Colonel McKenzie was likewise published by Professor Wilson in Cal- 

 cutta in 1828, in which the specification of some volumes (under 200) 

 of the works afterwards forwarded to this Presidency was included , 



Mr. Brown's collection is accompanied by a catalogue framed un- 

 der his own directions nearly twelve years ago, and subsequently ex- 

 tended to the other collections under consideration. An explanation 

 of this list, as has been stated above, is contained in enclosure No. 2. 



The collection received from the E. I. House has not yet been 

 fully examined. It seems to have been collected by various persons 

 and at different times. A large proportion of it, as appears by the 

 Honorable Court's despatch, was included in the collection of the 

 late Dr. Leyden, whose MSS. were purchased by the E. I. Com- 

 pany. Many of them are without title-pages, ill written and in bad 

 condition. They appear from superscriptions on many of the vo- 

 lumes in the Bengali character, to have travelled in the first in- 

 stance to Calcutta and thence to have been transported to London, 

 there to have lain unnoticed for many years. A large proportion 

 (about 900 Volumes) are in the Canarese character but others are writ- 

 ten in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Orya, Devanagari, and Burmese. 



The College collection was never very extensive, and has suffered 

 greatly in the Hindu portions from the dishonesty of a former Bra- 

 min Librarian. 



The collection of the Literary Society has likewise been much 

 curtailed in extent, as appears from a useful catalogue in the Society's 

 records containing a succinct and clear account of each work drawn 

 up many years ago by the brother of their Librarian, Mr. Bantleman. 



The Sub-Committee will now advert to the means that have sug- 

 gested themselves for amalgamating these several catalogues as far 



