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and that I should have to take a prominent part in bringing it to so suc- 

 cessful an issue. Should what I have written on this new and interest- 

 ing subject be of any benefit to the country, and the community at large, 

 nnd help a little to impel the Tea forward to enrich our own dominions, 

 and pull dowm the haughty pride of China, I shall feel myself richly re- 

 paid for all the perils and clangers and fatigues, that I have undergone 

 in the cause of British India Tea. — Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, No, W.—June 1839. 



Jaipore, lOlh June, 1839. 



Literary and Scientific Intelligence. 



Adverting to the merited eulogium passed by Mr. Jerdon at page 63 

 of this Number, on B. H. Hodgson, Esq. British Resident at the Court of 

 Nipal, we regret to find from the former gentleman that difficulties lie 

 in the way of the publication of the projected work on the Zoology of 

 Nipal, as may be gathered from the following passage of a letter received 

 by Mr. Jerdon from Sir Wm. Jardine : — " About 200 species of birds 

 from Nipal are now in my possession, one half of which are new; but 

 I am pledged not to describe any of them, except in a general and' 

 entire work; and, notwithstanding the large list of Indian Subscribers, 

 we cannot get a bookseller to run the risk of publishing, on account, 

 they say, of the difficulty of collecting the Indian money." 



The publication will not, however, with such admirable materials in 

 existence, be permitted ultimately to fail for want of pecuniary means, 

 we are sure, but the delay is deeply to be regretted. 



Oriental Translation Fund. — The committee of the Oriental 

 Translation Fund being desirous of submitting to the Subscribers a 

 general summary of their proceedings for the past year, believe they 

 cannot do so more clearly than by giving the subjoined notice, extracted 

 from the Report of the Royal Asiatic Society, delivered at the anniver- 

 sary meeting of that Society on the 11th of May, the materials for which 

 notice were furnished to the Council by the Secretary of the Commit- 

 tee, as has been customary for several years past. And to these Reports 

 the Committee take the present opportunity of referring the Subscri- 

 bers of the Fund, as exhibiting succinct, and they trust satisfactory 

 statements of the operations in which they have been engaged in 

 carrying into effect the designs of the institution confided to their 

 management. 



