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Berlin, the Kaiserliclie Academie of Vienna, the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Societe Asiatique of Paris, 

 the Oriental Societies of Germany and North America, and the Royal 

 Society of Northern Antiquaries sent him their diplomas, and 

 elected him their honorary or corresponding member ; and last, 

 though not least, our own Gracious Sovereign bestowed on him the Star 

 of India in recognition of his exalted merits. The Raja is now dead, 

 hut, to quote an American orator, " Death has not surprised us by 

 an unseasonable blow. It has cast its shroud only over mature 

 years, over long protracted literary service, and over life when the 

 ends of living had been accomplished." But the great work of the 

 Raja remains, and as long as a taste for Sanskrit literature shall 

 endure, so long we may confidently say, monumenta fnanebunt." 



5. The Council reported that they have adopted the following 

 report of the Philological Committee recommending to introduce the 

 Jonesian System of transliteration in spelling oriental names in the 

 Society's Journal and Proceedings : — 



" The Philological Committee of the Asiatic Society, having taken 

 into consideration a proposition of Babu Rajendralala Mitra, referred 

 to them by the Council, for the adoption of a uniform system for the 

 romanising of oriental words in the Journal, beg to report that it 

 is highly desirable that the system recommended — that of Sir 

 William Jones as modified by Professor H. H. Wilson — should be 

 adopted. 



" They are of opinion, however, that before enforcing it as regards 

 contributions to the Journal, it would be well to print a Key to 

 the system, and to circulate it for the information and use of 

 contributors. 



" As regards the linguistic vocabularies, the Committee recommend 

 that those that have been already received, should be returned to 

 their authors with a copy of the Key to have them revised and put 

 into one uniform system of spelling ; and all future contributions of 

 the kind should be treated in the same way. 



" Copies of the Key should also be sent to Government, with a re- 

 quest that they may circulate them among those who have been called 

 upon to co-operate in carrying out the proposed ethnological con- 

 gees. 



