APPENDIX No. I. 
AT THE 
ANNUAL MEETING or tue ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 
Held on the 7th of June, 1830; 
Sir ALExANDER JouNsTon, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, 
having verbally reported the proceedings of that Committee since the Anniversary 
in 1829; 
It was RESOLVED, 
s* That he be requested to reduce his report to writing, and that it be 
‘ printed in the Appendix to the Society’s Transactions.” 
TELL. DRE? ORT. 
OF THE 
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE. 
OF THE 
BRopal Asiatic Society. 
Tue object for which the Committee of Correspondence was established is, that it 
may become a medium through which persons in Asia may obtain from Europe, and 
persons in Europe may obtain from Asia, such information relative to the East as they 
cannot otherwise obtain with the same degree of facility; the nature of the proceedings 
of the Committee must, therefore, in a great degree, depend on the nature of the inquiries 
which are making in Asia and in Europe relative to India. In reporting its proceedings 
during the last year, we shall arrange them under four different heads:—Under the first, 
The inquiries relative to those languages which are called the Polynesian languages ;— 
under the second, The inquiries relative to the history of the intercourse which has 
subsisted between Europe and Asia, from the earliest ages to the present period ;—under 
the third, The inquiries relative to such of the institutions in India as most materially 
influence the moral and the political state of the natives of the country ;—under the 
fourth, The inquiries relative to the history of the descendants of the different foreign 
nations, European as well as Asiatic, who have from time to time settled in different 
parts of India. 
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