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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
TATISD:
The following are the names of the scholars who have promised to supply translations : BEAL, S.
FAUSBÖLL, V. OLDENBERG, H. BHANDARKAR, R. JACOBI, H.
PALMER, E. H. BÜHLER, G.
JOLLY, J.
Rhys DAVIDS, T. W. COWELL, E. B.
KERN, H.
TELANG, K. T. DARMESTETER, J. LEGGE, J.
WEST, E. W. EGGELING, J.
MAX MÜLLEB, F. OXFORD, October, 1876.
LETTER TO THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF
CHRIST CHURCH.
OXFORD, March 18, 1882. MY DEAR DEAN, When, in the year 1875, I received an invitation from the Austrian Government to transfer my services to Vienna, and to publish there, under the auspices of the Imperial Academy, a Series of Translations of the Sacred Books of the East, it was, I believe, mainly due to your kind exertions that the University invited me to stay at Oxford, and to carry out the same undertaking here, substituting only English for German in the translations which I had originally contemplated. I then submitted to you, and through you to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press and the Secretary of State for India, a general outline of the translations which, if only I could secure the co-operation of Oriental scholars in England, I hoped to bring out in a series of twenty-four volumes. This was in October 1876, and as the time is now approaching when this Series ought to be finished, viz, in October 1884, I think I ought to render, through you, to the
