1877.] Library. 233 



race in situ, not in a state of hopeless savagery, as in Australia and America, 

 but in a graduated scale of improved and improving languages. In the 

 rear of the Himalaya is the great monosyllabic Chinese ; the flank is turn- 

 ed by every possible combination of the Agglutinative method ; in their 

 front is the great Inflecting Word-system of the elder family of the Aryans, 

 destined in the Vernacular to incorporate Semitic vocables. Thus from 

 these languages may, possibly, at some future period, be gathered the con- 

 necting links between the great Orders of Human Speech." 



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IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet- 

 ing held in August last 



Transactions, Proceedings, and Journals, 

 presented by the respective Societies or JEditors. 



Berlin. Die Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, — Mo- 

 natsbericht, Marz, April, Mai, 1877. 



Marz. H. C. Vogel. — Spectral- Photometrisclie Untersucliungen insbesondere 



zur Bestimmung der Absorption der die Sonne umgebenden GasMUe. 

 Mai. von Martens. — TJebersiclit der walirend der Reise um die Erde in den Jah- 

 ren 1874 — 1876 auf S. M. Schiff Gazelle gesammelten Land und Siisswasser- 

 MoUusken. 

 Bombay. The Indian Antiquary,— Vol. 6, Pts. 70—72, 1877. 



Pt. 72. Dr. Caldwell. — Sepulchral Urns in Soutbern India. Frof. A. Weber. — 

 On the Krishnajanmashtami, or Krishna's birth-festival. 



. The Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, — Journal, Vol. 



12, No. 34a, (Extra number) , 



G. Biihler. — Detailed Report of a tour in search of Sanskrit MSS. made in Kaa- 

 mir, Rajputana, and Central India. 

 Calcutta. Geological Survey of India, — Memoirs. Palseontologia Indica. 

 Ser. 11, 3. 



Dr. 0. Feistmanfel. — Jurassic (Liassic) flora of the Rajmahal group from Gola- 

 pili (near EUore) South Godavari District. 



. The Mahabharat, Nos. 10—14. 



. The Rigveda Sanhita, Pt. 1, No. 2. 



. The Rigveda Sanhita, Pt. 1. 



. The Ramayana, Pt. 6, No. 3. 



Dublin. The Royal Irish Academy, — Proceedings, Vol. 2, Ser. 2, Nos. 

 1—6, and No. 11. 



No. 1. C. E. Burton. — On a Spectroscope of the Binocular Form for the Ob- 

 servation of Faint Spectra. 



