File BHH/4/2 - Letter from Alexander Johnston, Vice-president of Royal Asiatic Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 6 July 1836

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Letter from Alexander Johnston, Vice-president of Royal Asiatic Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 6 July 1836

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Letter from Alexander Johnston, Vice-president of Royal Asiatic Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his letter which he has shared with Sir James Camac, East India Company Chairman, and Colonel Sykes. They are in agreement about the importance of Hodgson's intended publication on Nepal zoology. Johnston expresses the admiration of his friends in this country for the work that Hodgson is undertaking. He will publish Hodgson's letter in the next issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 6 July 1836.

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