“I venture humbly to make these suggestions, leaving the Government to determine as to their propriety, and as to the continuance of its patronage to Mr. Csoma during the travels he now projects into Tirhut, Nepal, and Ladak for the further prosecution of his studies, particularly in the Sanskrit literature of the ninth and tenth centuries. The very moderate scale of his habits and wants cannot be placed in a more conspicuous point of view, than by summing up the money upon which he has lived during the last fourteen years. The marginal statement [41] shows that in this period he has received 4226 rupees, of which he has expended 4000 rupees, being little more than 20 rupees per mensem for food, travelling, clothes, and wages of servants and pandits, while in Tibet. “The Dictionary and Grammar now submitted form but a small part of the works Mr. Csoma has executed while in Calcutta. A catalogue and analysis of the voluminous manuscripts received from Mr. B. H. Hodgson of Nepal, and a valuable and most extensive polyglot vocabulary [42] (of which M. Rémusat attempted a small portion in Paris from Chinese works), and several minor translations are deposited with the Asiatic Society. The vocabulary would merit well to be printed, but the expense would be considerable, and the author is averse to the further detention, which its publication would entail on him at the present moment. “It remains for me to request the orders of Government as to the distribution of the five hundred copies of the Grammar and Dictionary. “The author solicits for himself one hundred copies that he may send them to the Universities of Austria, Italy, and Germany. “The Asiatic Society will in the same way, if permitted, undertake to distribute to the learned societies of England, France, and other countries with which it is in literary communication; it would, of course, make known that the presentation was made on the part of the Government of India, under whose auspices the works have appeared. “A portion may be sent to the Society’s booksellers in Calcutta and London for sale, and perhaps the Government may desire to forward fifty copies or more to the Honourable the Court of Directors. “Copies may also be properly deposited in the libraries of the colleges in the several Presidencies of the Indian Government. “For all the details of these arrangements, I beg leave, on the part of the Asiatic Society, to tender my services, happy in having already been able to assist in the publication of a work which I feel confident will do honour to the author, and the Government of India as his patrons.” The epitaph engraved on the tombstone at Darjeeling, referring to these works, truly says that “these are his best and real monuments.”