ADJOUKNED MEETING— JULY. 



The adjourned Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 

 18th July. 



A. Grote, Esq. senior member, in the Chair. 



The chairman read the proposed resolution. 



The Chairman then called upon Major Lees as the mover of the ad^ 

 joumment, to reopen the discussion. 



Major Lees said he regretted that he could not for many reasons 

 support the motion. First, Because he felt certain, that if any such 

 resolution as that before the meeting was passed, it would be wholly 

 inoperative ; and it did not, he thought, become Societies, founded for 

 the investigation of scientific subjects, to waste their time in discussing 

 a resolution, which, when passed, would be a dead letter. Secondly, This 

 Society, composed as it was of a mixed body, some who professed one 

 branch of knowledge, and others who professed another, but the great 

 majority of whom professed none, was not the kind of Society whose 

 opinion on such a subject would carry any weight with the public. 

 An opinion on this subject, to be of any value, should emanate from a 

 literary Society, the majority at least of whose members had some 

 acquaintance with the principles of comparative philolgy and the genius 

 of a variety of languages. The question of terminology was surrounded 

 with difficulties in the West, and when we came to the East, those 

 difficulties were increased fourfold. Thirdly, He must oppose the motion, 

 because, if it were passed in its present form, it would certainly excite 

 the ridicule of all men of science, and* especially of those German 

 philologers, to whom the whole world is so deeply indebted for their 

 able researches into the principles which regulated the philological 

 structure of languages, and for those labours which had laid the found- 

 ations of the science of language. In adopting technical terms for 

 employment in translations from English into the vernacular languages 

 of India, to exclude the large body of terms which already exists in 

 the classical languages of India, would be very like excluding terms 

 derived from Latin and Greek from our terminology in Europe. 



