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probably far more : for even Dr. Burnell's admirable catalogue was by no means a complete catalogue of all that existed. For, where he mentions a single work in a bundle, we are able today to trace two or more works in the same bundle.
The Committee appointed by the Government of Madras took charge early in 1919. Since then, they have been basily pushing forward the work of revising and preparing a fresh catalogue of all the works now in the Library according to the latest scientific methods. Each work is described in detail in a card-index-form which contains all the necessary particulars.
In 1920 a Catalogue of printed books in French, Latin, Italian and Greek was published. in 1926 three volumes of a Catalogue of Tamil Manuscripts in the Library were published. From the yoar 1924 a Catalogue of Mahrathi Mss. and books of this Library is being prepared; the first Volume was published in 1928. These are now on sale and can be bad from the Secretary of the Library.
The Administrative Committee of the Library approached the Government of Madras, year after year with the request for & special grant to enable them to prepare and publish a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in this Library. In their G. O. No. Mis. 563 Dated 9th April 1927, the Government of Madras were pleased to allot the necessary funds for a three-year programme for carrying out the long delayed desire of the Committee. The work of cataloguing and printing has since been pushed forward with great rapidity.
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