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draw the attention of our friends in India to the fact, that even 

 now it will not be quite impossible to save at least through their 

 zeal a great part of his journals, observations, instruments and 

 collections, which are the more valuable on account of the coun- 

 tries in which they were made. 



Captain Henry Strachey states, that according to information he 

 received, several boxes with collections, drawings, books and some 

 instruments are in Dehra in the Surveyor General's Office ; the 

 Missionaries of Lahoul have informed us, that similar objects are 

 still left in their charge ; we do not think it improbable that even 

 those, which Adolphe Schlagintweit carried with him, during his 

 travels in Turkistan, might be recovered by a plan we have the 

 honor to propose. 



We are perfectly aware, that these objects cannot be got with- 

 out Government's usual energetic assistance, and without the sanc- 

 tioning the comparatively small expenses necessary for this pur- 

 pose. In consequence of the following extract of a letter address- 

 ed to us by the India House as early as July 1858, we consider it 

 our duty, again officially to request the kind assistance of Govern- 

 ment, 



The letter says : 



" With reference to the letter addressed by General Sabine to 

 " the Secretary of the Royal Society, dated 14th May 1858, in 

 " which he states that the 80 stations visited by " Messrs. Schla- 

 " gintweit" are independent of those visited by A^dolphe Schla- 

 t * gintweit in his last and fatal journey of which they have a pros- 

 " pect of receiving a journal and observations," the Court expect 

 that you " will use every exertion to recover your late Brother's 

 " Memoranda of the researches on which the Government of India 

 " employed him. 



" (Signed) J. D. Dickinson." 



We therefore have the honor to propose in reference to his 

 manuscripts and collections : 



1. That the objects at Dehra be repacked in accordance with 

 Captain Strachey' s plans. 



