Dr. Malan is presumably the only witness still living who knew Csoma face to face so well. Mr. Hodgson was in correspondence with him, but, as far as is known, they never met.
This memoir would be incomplete without a respectful mention of the names of Mr. Hodgson, and particularly of Dr. Malan. This latter gentleman, with great generosity, recently presented Csoma’s Tibetan books and MSS., as a spontaneous gift, to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,[3] in whose library at Budapest they will in the future be carefully preserved. [[169]]
[1] To whose courtesy an especial tribute is due here, with the expression of deep regret at his untimely death by cholera in May last. [↑]
[2] Dr. Archibald Campbell speaks of Csoma’s grizzly beard. [↑]
[3] See “Journal Royal Asiatic Society,” vol. xvi. p. 486. [↑]
APPENDIX.
Csoma’s writings may be divided into two categories. To the first belong his Tibetan Grammar and Dictionary, and the essays which were published in various periodicals of Calcutta. To the second belong his manuscripts.
The first class consists of the following:—