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7 to attempt a critical report, as the Raja intended to do, of the vast number of MSS. brought to light by him. It is a matter of great regret and a great loss to the learned world that the Raja did not live to finish his work, and give to the world his criticism on the materials collected by him. I would not attempt any thing like that. After the publication of this volume, I shall go to press with the work done under my superintendence. I shall give full notices, in the form given in the Raja's work, of MSS. not mentioned in the Catalogus Catalogorum, and only short notices of important works that I may lay my hands upon and that are mentioned in it. I also intend to write a critical report of the MSS. found during my time. 14. During the course of the next year will be finished our survey of Dacca, Mymensingh, Faridpur, and Tippera. We may possibly hope to survey a portion of Noakhali and Chittagong also. But the districts of Burrisal and Jessore will remain untouched. Bankoora and Midnapur have not yet been surveyed. Sylhet and Cachar by themselves form a distinct school of Hindu Law and of Sanskrit learning generally, having closer intellectual affinity with Mithila than with nearer Bengal. A survey of Assam, at least of the districts of Gauhati and Goalpara, may lead to important results as to the origin of the Sakta and Saiva forms of worship. The city of Calcutta and the District of 24-Pergunnahs have not been systematically surveyed. It is only when the Pandit had nothing else to do that he employed his time in visiting libraries in Calcutta and its near neighbourhood. The metropolitan districts of Hughli and Howrah have also been similarly dealt with. The Government has spent three thousand two hundred Rupees a year for 20 years upon these operations, and the result has been that the Bengal work has elicited the highest praise from a careful critic like Prof. Aufrecht, who in his preface thus writes about Raja Rajendralala Mitra's work:-"11. L. Notices of Sanskrit MSS. by Rajendralala Mitra, Calcutta 1871-90. Nine volumes in 8 and the first part of the tenth. This is decidedly the best Analysis of Sanskrit MSS., which up to the present time, has been made by a native of India. The copious extracts are very useful, and enable the attentive reader to judge of the contents of a work, even where he is deserted by the English text. The indefatigable industry of the editor deserves every kind of commendation. Quoted by numbers." 15. The Raja expected to finish the work of searching by the end of 1892, and to finish the work of printing a year later. His illness prevented him from carrying on the work at the rate he expected, and I believe that he under-estimated to a considerable extent the area which had yet, up to the date of his last report, to be investigated. I would, therefore, request the favour of your moving the Government to continue the grant for another three years; for it would be a sad loss to the learned world if the work were abandoned at this stage, and it would also be a waste of the money already spent if the work is left half finished.