120 Report on Transliteration. [July, 
The following gentleman is a candidate for election at the next 
meeting:— 
Babu Mahendra Nath Ray, Howrah, proposed by Dr. G. A. Grierson, 
seconded by C. R. Wilson, Esq. 
The following gentlemen have expressed a wish to withdraw from 
the Society :— 
Dr. G. M. Giles. 
Babu Gane 9 a Chandra Chandra. 
The Secretary reported the death of the following members :— 
A. M. Hash, Esq. (Ordinary Member). 
Professor T. H. Huxley (Honorary Member). 
The Chairman reported that Mr. C. R. Wilson had returned to 
India and had taken charge of the General Secretaryship from Surgeon- 
Lieut.-Col. G. Ranking. 
The Philological Secretary read a report of the Committee of 
the 10th International Congress of Orientalists held at Geneva, on 
Transliteration. 
10th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS, 
HELD AT GENEVA. 
TRANSLATION 
of the Report of the Committee on Transliteration. 
The Commission appointed by the Congress to adopt a system of 
transcription of the Sanskrit and Arabic Alphabets has held several 
sessions. 
After having examined and discussed the systems in use up to the 
present time, and having considered the different improvements which 
have been proposed to the Commission by its Members and other 
savants, the Commission submits for the approval of the Congress for 
uniform adoption by Orientalists the systems put forward in the two 
tables annexed to the present report. 
The Commission has taken as a basis for its work the Report 
drawn up by a special Committee nominated by the Royal Asiatic Society 
of London, as well as the methods of transcription generally employed 
in France, in Germany, and by the Bengal Asiatic Society. The 
Commission does not claim to have arrived at a perfectly scientific 
system: it has been necessary to have regard to established customs 
and also to take into consideration the differences of pronunciation 
