<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#fr">Abschrift.</hi> When I had the honor of writing to you a fort<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />night ago I intended to have as lied your kind aid in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />behalf of my friend <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> who is devoted to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Sciences and to the subject of the „Education in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Vernacular“. Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> wants „an Elementary treatise on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Geography (in French to be translated by himself into <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Hindu) calculated for the young Hindu and to give<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="35" />all the important and indisputable parts of the sub<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />jects and only such as are indisputable.“ <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">1) Political, with the provinces and towns of Eminence.</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">2) Physical, the mountain chains and Rivers.</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">3) Ethnographical</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#leftBraced" rows="3">Illustrating only the leading facts <lb />in the distribution of man, plants <lb />and animals.</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">4) Botanical</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">5) Zoological</cell> If thought proper by the author Maps of Currents <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />aerial and oceanic, of Isothermal lines and geology <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />should be added. Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> has directed the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cdd358d1-3d9c-4aff-9358-d13d9ccaff22" corresp="#cd94386a-5810-40a8-9438-6a581070a8cb" type="editorialNote">Secretary</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cd94386a-5810-40a8-9438-6a581070a8cb" corresp="#cdd358d1-3d9c-4aff-9358-d13d9ccaff22" type="editorial">Eventuell handelte es sich hier um <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016020 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119278294">Aloys Sprenger</persName>, der von 1845 bis 1847 das Delhi College leitete und damit zugleich Sekretär der <orgName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020403">Delhi Vernacular Translation Society</orgName> war. Jedoch weilte er ab März 1847 in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh, <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">Indien</placeName>). Es könnte sich auch um John Henry Taylor bzw. Francis Taylor handeln, der von 1848 bis 1850 stellvertretend für Sprenger als 'Acting Principal' die Leitung übernahm.</note> of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020403">Vernacular society</orgName> at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005507 https://www.geonames.org/1273294">Delhi</placeName>, to remit <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="100" unit="pfund_sterling">£ 100</measure> to any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />person, whom you may recommend to provide the Msc. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of such a work in French; which money will either be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />paid to yourself or agents at once; or to the author <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on his remitting the Msc., as you think proper. Should <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you think this insufficient remuneration, Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />offers to make it <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="150" unit="pfund_sterling"><choice> <orig>L.</orig> <reg>£</reg> </choice> 150 sterling</measure>. A Quarto Size would be most convenient for a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />school-book. The Zoological and Botanical Maps to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />contain little sketches of the conspicuous objects of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Each Region, but these are not to be crowded. We are quite at a loss to know whom to apply to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for assistance in this matter and I take the great li<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />berty of applying to you because I think that amongst <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the many young geographers in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159">Berlin</placeName> you may know<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="36" />one, to whom the remuneration would be acceptable, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />and who could command such aid as to make the work <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#i">accurate</hi>; it cannot be too simple and precise. You too will I know highly approve of the noble <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />liberality of the individuals, where love for the spread <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of sound geographical knowledge amongst the natives <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>, has volunteered this sum. I now quite expect to be able to explore <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />junga</placeName> in <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1848-10-01" to="1848-10-31" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">October</date>; as the Government have taken up <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the question of our rights to travel in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikhim</placeName> with the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />object of forwarding my views. Now I am taking <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hourly Meteorological observations from 8<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">h</hi> am. to 2<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">h</hi> pm. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The Barometrical fluctuations are small and very irregu<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />lar. This is perhaps the most equable climate I ever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />was in. 