BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ORIENTALISTS The Chairman of the British Association of Orientalists has the honour of Bringing to your attention the following Resolution unanimously adopted by the members present at the Annual General Meeting of the Association held on Wednesday, 22nd March, 1972. We, all the University teachers and representatives from Libraries, Museums and other academic institutions in the United Kingdom participat- ing in the 1972 Annual Conference of the British Association of Orientalists held at Eliot College, University of Kent between March 20th and March 23rd, express our deep concern about the gravity of the problem of the rapid loss and destruction of manuscripts and similar material in Asian countries, especially in India, and appreciate highly the work of preservation undertaken By the Vrindaban Research Institute, which has already acquired an extensive collection. It is the aim of the Institute to collect from the Braj area of India in particular as much material as possible, to restore and catalogue it, and to make it available to scholars in a well equipped post-graduate research centre. Recognizing the need for substantial assistance from public and private organizations, we affirm support for the International Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute which will sponsor the Institute; and we further urge Governments, Universities, Academies, Libraries, Museums, and Foundations concerned to contribute to the solution of the general problem by giving generous financial aid for the development of the Institute and eventually for the establishment of other similar under- takings elsewhere. L.P. Elwell-Sutton 28.3.72 [28 March 1972] [19720328]