He found a valuable manuscript of the Syriac Pentateuch in New College Library, dated 1193, from the monastery where the 'Patriarch of the Indian Syrians' lives; it agrees with Dr Buchanan's Travancore manuscript, and proves the latter to date from before the time when Roman Catholics reached India; he was unable to borrow the manuscript, and doubts whether he will have collated enough of it in nin days 'to proceed with our text'; hopes to return to Cambridge in August; thanks to Mandell and Queens' for testimonials; he finds some collations of Syriac manuscripts published in the London Polyglot 'extremely incorrect': whole lines and verses omitted; he was unsuccessful in getting a Professorship at Hertford