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Rh valuable papers in the 'Asiatic Researches,' and in the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.'

In 1842, M. Csoma de Körös set out on an adventurous journey in the footsteps of Mr. Manning, with the intention of making his way to Lhasa, in order to gain access to the stores of Tibetan literature which he believed, from his reading in Ladak, were still extant there. But this indefatigable scholar died, of fever, in 1842, in Dr. Campbell's house at Darjíling. Next to Mr. Hodgson and Csoma de Koros, the most distinguished contributor to our knowledge of the region lying between India and Tibet, during the present century, is undoubtedly Dr. Campbell. Archibald Campbell was born in 1805, and was appointed an assistant surgeon in the East India Company's service in 1828. He first came to Nepal in 1830, as surgeon to the residency at Kathmandu, and left in 1838, having been sent by Mr. Hodgson to settle a boundary dispute with Sikkim. This service was so well performed that it led to Dr. Campbell receiving charge of the hill station at Darjíling. While under Mr. Hodgson he wrote a narrative of our political relations with Nepal, and an excellent paper on the agriculture of the Nepal valley.'

The hill station of Darjíling, 370 miles to the north of Calcutta, is on a ridge of the Sikkim Himálaya, at a height varying" from 6500 feet to 7500 feet above the sea. In 1828