jjy APPENDIX. 



The Committee also beg leave to report that they have, in carrying on their foreign 

 rommunicalions with different persons and governments on the continent of Europe, 

 derived great assistance from many foreigners who are members of the Committee, 

 and that they liave tiierefore, with their permission, appointed three of them to be their 

 foreign Secretaries: Dr. Rosen, the pupil of the celebrated Professor Bopp at Berlin, 

 and Professor of Oriental languages at the London University, to be their Sanscrit 

 and German Secretary; Dr. Dorn, a distinguished Persian and Arabic scholar, to be 

 their Persian and Arabic Secretary ; and Monsieur Caesar Moreau, the French Vice 

 Consul in England, and the author of many valuable works on the Statistics and 

 Commerce of Great Britain and France, to be their French Secretary. 



The Committee have taken tneasures for jirocuring detailed accounts of the dif- 

 ferent articles of which the collection in the Museum of the Society is composed; and 

 they have reason to hope that several persons, who are well acquainted with the 

 nature of those articles, will soon lay before the Society such descriptions of them, as 

 may enable the public to derive much information from the Museum, relative to those 

 jiarts of Oriental history to which the Society have directed their inquiries. 



NOTES. 



NOTE 1. 

 Copy of a Letter from the Rev. Professor Lea to Sir Alexander Johnston, Knt. 

 Dear Sir: London, April 17, 18-27. 



I now proceed to lay before you a more detailed account of what I believe ought to be done, 

 and what, I think, the Royal Asiatic Society can do, towards improving the state of Oriental literature in 

 this country. But, perhaps, it will be best to state, in the first place, the situation in which we now are, 

 and then to proceed to suggest the remedy. I shall be particular on the Arabic and Persic only, because 

 the detail would be too long to do so in every case ; and I shall begin with the Arabic. In this depart- 

 ment, then, a tolerable grammar has never yet made its appearance in this country. The work of Richard- 

 son is meagre in the extreme, and better calculated to set the learner out wrong, and to keep him so, than 

 to benefit him in acquiring the Arabic language. The admirable works of Colonel Baillie and Mr. Lumsden 

 are unfinished, and likely to remain so. In this case the learner must have recourse either to the 

 Grammaire Arabe of M. de Sacy, or to one of the grammars published in Latin by the Catholic missiona- 

 ries; in the latter of which, however, he will have the mortification to find very great defects, and, in 

 some cases, views on the subject quite foreign to the genius of that language. M. de Sacy has supplied 

 many of the deficiences, and corrected many of the errors of preceding writers on Arabic grammar, but 

 valuable as his work is, it leaves something to be desired through the omission of the prosody, and his 

 paradigm of the verb does not quite agree with the views of the Arabian grammarians. In the Latin 

 grammar of Guadagnoli, indeed, a prosody is to be found, but this is full of mistakes, as Clarke has 

 shewn. If he have recourse to the work of Mr. Gladwin on this subject, he will here find endless 

 difficulties. The only work of much value on this subject, is the little book published by Clarke at Oxford, 



