1888,] al? 
periodicals. The members of the Committee have even been individ- 
ually honored by a dedication to them of Dr. P. Steiner’s Uebungen zur 
Pasilingua, in recognition, as he expresses it, ‘‘ of their philanthropic 
efforts in linguistic science.”? The well-known English scientific period- 
ical, Nature, thought the Report of sufficient value to republish it in 
full, and an extended analysis and criticism of it were published in 
German by Prof. George Bauer, while another one was written in 
French in thé Cosmos, May 5, 1888. 
Of direct adhesions to the proposal for a Congress we may especially 
mention in our own country the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, which, at its meeting in August, 1888, appointed 
representatives to attend the Congress should it be convened. ‘The 
University of South Carolina writes through its President: ‘‘ The 
effort of the American Philosophical Society commands our hearty 
approval and sympathy; ” and the distinguished linguist, Prof. F. A. 
Marsh, President of Lafayette College, says: ‘‘The object seems a 
worthy one, and [am glad that the American Philosophical Society 
has undertaken to promote it.” 
The Senate of the University of Edinburgh officially ‘‘ express sin- 
cere sympathy with the object ;’’? the Royal Danish Academy of Sci- 
ences and Letters ‘‘ acknowledges fully the scientific importance of the 
subject ;”’? the Geographical Association of Halle considers the aim 
‘¢one most desirable both in the interests of science and ordinary inter- 
course ;”’ the Batavian Society of Rotterdam expresses the hope ‘‘ that 
these efforts will be most successful,’ and similar expressions of cor- 
dial approval have been received from the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, the Georgia Historical Society, the Colorado Scientific 
Society, the Royal Society of Victoria, the Yorkshire Polytechnic So- 
ciety, and the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Of individual expressions of opinion by distinguished specialists, we 
permit ourselves to quote the following from a letter from Prof. James 
Geikie, of Edinburgh: ‘‘I agree with the conclusions come to by your 
Society, and think that the time has come for the serious consideration 
of the question of a new language.” The Rev. W.S. Lach-Szyrma, 
himself a prominent linguistic scholar, writes: ‘‘ I believe, in spite of 
the decision of the London Philological Society, that the plan you sug- 
gest is the sole mode of introducing a universal language.’’ The Hon. 
Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, says: ‘‘I can see nothing but good to 
result from the resolution of your Society,’’ and the President of Haver- 
ford College states that the Report of the Committee meets his cordial 
endorsement. 
It is gratifying to your Committee and complimentary to the Society 
to have received such outspoken recognition of their efforts as the 
above extracts exhibit. They completely set at rest the fears felt in 
some quarters that the Society had ventured upon a subject of doubt- 
ful importance or uncertain judiciousness. 
Naturally several of the societies who fully approve the plan of a 
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