which was published as a serial in the monthly journal Jock, Calcutta series, Jointly with Lt.-col. P. B. T. .qurdon he had edited and seen through the press the voluminous dictionary of the Assamese language, Head
- osha, compiled by the late Srijut Hemchandra Barua,
Whatever leisure he could wrest from the responsible duties of an executive officer of the Government was devoted to literary and antiquarian pursuits. sir Edward Gait found in him a most enthusiastic and helpful worker when he instituted a systematic survey into the possibilities of histori- cal research in Assam, as we know from his keport of the Proges of Historical Research e Assem, is97. Mr. Goswami had represented to the Government the immediate necessity of collecting the ancient Assamese manuscripts lying for aged in the archives of Assamese families. Sir Archdale Barle, then chief Commissioner of Assam, readily took up the suggestion, and in October, 19ia, deputed Mr. Goswami to collect the available manuscripts, which, in the words of Col. Gurdon, “supplied Hem Gosain with a great portion of the information which he acquired and afterwards utilised in his published works.” He had compiled with extra- ordinary pains a descriptive catalogue of the pathe collected, which is now being published by the Calcutta University. He had edited and published the sixteenth century Assamese prose rendering of the Gita by Bhattadeva, and the old metrical chronicle of the Darrang Rajas. He had contributed a series of critical articles on numerous old Assamese classics in the pages of the first two volumes of the Taan. He had published, with his introductory notes, the rock inscriptions of Assam and the diplomatic letters of the "Ahom court in the sixth, seventh and eighth volumes of the Alochae. For the space of forty-five years, 1888-1928, he was a devoted student of Assamese literature and history, being more acquainted with original sources than any other Assamese gentleman of the tne.
