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ANTHROPOLOGICAL Society 
OF WASHINGTON. p.c 
D. Howarp, Hsaq., F.C.8., &c.; in. tHE CHarr. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following Elections were announced ;-— 
Lire Associate :—The Venerable Archdeacon G. Smith Winter, Canada, 
Associates :—J. Allan Osman, Esq., D.S., United States; Major 
Papillon, R.A., Reading. 
The following is a report of an extempore address then delivered :— 
On “THE SCIENCES OF LANGUAGE AND OF 
HTHNOGRAPHY,’ WITH GENERAL REFERENCE TO VI# 
LANGUAGE AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE 
OF HUNZA. By Dr. Lerryee, Pa.D., LL.D., D.O.L., ete. 
4 Miser time has long ago passed when grammar and 
its rules could be treated in the way to which 
we were accustomed when at school. Vitality has now 
to be breathed into the dry bones of conjugations and 
declensions, and no language can be taught, even for mere 
practical purposes, without connecting custom and _ history 
with so-called “rules.” The influences of climate and of 
religion have to be considered, as also the character of the 
people, if we wish to obtain a real hold on the language we 
study. Do we desire to make language a specialty, the pre- 
paration of acquiring early in life two dissimilar languages, 
one analytic and the other synthetic, is absolutely necessary, 
because if that is not done we shall always be hampered by 
the difficulty of dissociating the substance from the word 
which designates it. The human mind is_ extremely 
limited, and amongst the limits imposed upon it are those 
of, in early life, connecting an idea, fact, or process, with 
certain words ; and unless two languages, at least, are learnt, 
and those two are as dissimilar as possible, one is always, 
* January 21, 1889, 
