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adaptations there must be corruption, but a very little practice enables 

 us to recognise one word a little modified. We hear every' moment 

 natives around us using such words as " rail," " map," " receipt," 

 " claim," " court," " decree," " warrant," "momlet," " boot," and many 

 others. I hope that they will long continue to use them, and increase 

 their stock. At any rate I say do not let us discourage their doing so." 



The chairman, in putting the motion to the meeting, observed that 

 he did not understand Major Lees as having qualified and retracted 

 the remarks which he had made in opposition to Mr. Campbell's 

 motion, and in all which remarks he (the chairman) cordially concu rred 

 Nor could he read that passage of Sir D. Macleod's reply to which 

 Mr. Campbell had just referred, as asking for the Society's opinion 

 on the question of scientific technology which had been discussed at 

 such length. Sir D. Macleod seemed to wish for advice only on the 

 subject of the relations to be established between the new Oriental 

 College and existing Government institutions, a subject on which 

 the text of Mr. Campbell's resolution very properly declares the 

 Society to be precluded from expressing an opinion. 



Major Lees had anticipated the chairman in calling attention to 

 that passage in Sir D. Macleod's reply which had given rise to the 

 resolution before the meeting. The advice therein given was ' not 

 unnecessarily to import terms from European lands.' Dr. Waldie 

 had pointed out instances, in which it would be absolutely necessary 

 to import terms from some source, and to cases such as these, Sir D. 

 Macleod's warning would not of course apply. If the chairman 

 rightly understood Mr. Campbell's closing remarks, the latter gave his 

 assent to the view of the question expressed by Dr. Waldie, and in 

 that case he thought that his motion in the negative form, which 

 it had assumed as Dr. Anderson's amendment, might well be with- 

 drawn. 



Mr. Campbell had at the last meeting referred to Mr. Beames's 

 paper just published in the Journal, but the chairman did not there 

 find any disposition to advocate the object of the resolution. Mr. 

 Beames strongly recommended the indenting on Arabic rather than 

 on Sanscrit roots for supplying deficiencies in official Hindustani ; 

 but his objections to Sanscrit compounds would apply to the intro- 

 duction of terms derived from any of the Indo-Germaniclanguages. 



