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Monday^ 20th January 1851. 



Dr CHRISTISON, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Some notices were given, by the Rev. J. Hannah, of an 

 elaborate paper received, through Professor Jameson, from 

 Mr J. R. Logan of Singapore. The following is the Author's 

 own account of its nature and contents : — 



1. Traces of an Ethnic Connection between the Basin of 

 the Ganges and the Indian Archipelago, before the 

 Advance of the Hindus into India ; and a Comparison 

 of the Languages of the Indo-Pacific Islanders with the 

 Tibeto-Indian, Tibeto-Burmese, Telugu-Tamulian, Tar- 

 tar-Japanese, and American Languages. 



I. — Preliminary Enquiries. 



§ 1. Principal continental connections of the Archaic ethnology of 

 Asianesia. 



§ 2. Physiological and moral evidence of an Indian connection. 



§ 3. General ethnic principles and tendencies observable in the 

 ethnology of Eastern Asia and Asianesia. 



a. Mutual physiological and moral action of tribes. 

 h. Linguistic development and mutual action of tribes. 



§ 4. Character of primordial phonology. Remnants of it in S. E. 

 Asia. 



§ 5. Cause of the transition from the monotonic to dissyllabic 

 glossaries. 



§ 6. Comparative value of structural and glossarial comparisons for 

 ethnology. Superiority of the glossarial. Supreme impor- 

 tance of Phonology. 



II. — Phonetic and structural character of the archaic languages of 



India. 



§ 7- Prepositional and postpositional languages. 



§ 8. Character of the Tibetan and Burmese with relation to each 



other and to the Tartarian and S. E. Asian languages. 

 § 9. The N. Gangetic or Himalayan languages. 

 § 10. The S. E. Gangetic languages. 

 §11. The S. Gangetic languages. 

 §12. The Telugu-Tamulian languages. 

 §13. Comparison of the Telugu-Tamulian with the African 



languages. 



