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 Indian lore, lie produced a large number of works, which for usefulness, depth of learning, and wide range of research, show him to have been the worthy successor of Sir W. Jones and H. T. Colebeooke. The just appreciation of his merits, contained in the sketches of his life and labours, in the "Annual Report" of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1860, and in the " Rapport" of the Societe Asiatique for the same year, expresses but the meed of admiration and gratitude with which every student of Sanskrit acknowledges the obligations he owes to Professor Wilson's works. Many of these, however, ranging as they do over a period of nearly half a century, were originally published in periodicals and transactions of Oriental Societies not generally accessible, or have otherwise become scarce ; while they still are the standard, and in some instances the only, authority on the various topics of which they treat. The greatest acknowledgment, therefore, is due to the liberality with which Mrs. Wilson authorised and enabled the publishers to collect and reprint the principal writings of her lamented husband ; and every one concerned in the study of the religion, literature, and antiquities of India, will thank the publishers for their spirit and zeal in reproducing a