TRANSACTIONS OP THE SECTIONS. 
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a 0 i y 0 u, j V| a: 
t cl n ) 2 ! 
cqkgh , XI 
j) b f m; 
MtfBf words 5 The dMeHhouli he arranged accordmf) to iheorgmiic format 
^ifmh Utter. In Sanscrit this is already done; but, for tlio 
kum, it would be an improvement slightly to change tbo orclcr ol the ciftuet, 
duns the tweb first, the semivowels second, and the sibilants witli the aiinplc aspi- 
^the third place. Tlie order suggested for Greek and Latin was— 
a r K (0 u V, 0” 
riOv , C 
Kyx 
f (=«•»)• 
He natural order for Anglo-Saxon and English is the same as for Lutni, the w 
kae inserted after the «. The eftbet of those changes U, that very many demaU^s 
ittanlly place tbemseWes under their roots, and that the most diflicult parts of tlie 
»rt iho* St once to the learner their probable primitives. 0. Ihe next suggestion 
aftn to the Celtic dialects, and would he found very useful on account of llic changes 
b sKeh die initial consonant is so fi-equenUy subject. All mr^ that begm wilh a 
•mmntihould be arranged under the second consonant, and not und^ the first. 
Tlrlut luggeitioD refers to Persian. The Indo^Oennanic and Semttic ejemenis 
Mi ie separated in the lexicon ; and perhaps the most convenient way would be to 
irist lien on opposite pages. 
.V«(e.—The suggwtions in 4 and 5 apply with great beuefit to Coptic; 0 apph« to 
■wsl African dialects; and 7 applies to Turkish, separating the onguial Tatar 
the Persian and Arabic parts of iho existing language. 
On the French Lnngvage. By Dr. Lane, D.C.L, 
On the Shyenne Numerals. By R. G. Latham, M.D. 
In Qillitin’s Synopus doubts are expressed as to tho proper place of the Sliyenne 
•“page. Lieutenant Abert, of the Santa F6 Expedition, as staleil in the * Bulletin 
deliSoci(t6 de Giographie,’has puhlishod a grammar and vocabulary of tbU Ian- 
a The Dumerms alono have been seen by tbo writer of this note. 1 hey refer 
gBBge to the Algonquin group of tongues. 
Oa 0 Moskito Grammar and Vocahutmy. By R. G. Latham, M.D. 
Ih* sflinidcs of the Moskito language, in tlio present state of our knowledge, arc 
* few uid nmcellaneous. Still, considering that wo are without Bamples of any 
language, its apparent isolation is not greater than is naturally cx- 
fjd- The rfaio for the Moskito avo,—1. 'rhoinasiomig's ‘ Narrative of a Re- 
•***• ou the Mosiiito Shore.' 2. ‘ Bevicht liber einige Thcilc des Afoskitolaudcs, 
^^,inB€rliii,]845. 3. ‘ A Grammar of the Moskito Language,’by A. Heiider- 
^ IWliit.lsiG. 
On a Botoewio Vocahulary. By R. G. Latham, IU.B. 
‘RulUtinde la Society deGdographlo ’ (Tliiril Rcrk-s. vol. vh), U a v^abu- 
^ * 1 the Botocudo language, spoken In South America, on the banks of the Rio 
y* *>d tlie Kio Belmonte, extending to tho sources of the former and reaching the 
M the province of Minas Genies. 'The vocabulary is that of M. Marcus Porte, 
ihe mouth of two young Boloeutloa now in Wris. To this Monsieur Jo- 
h*< ^ded some philological remarks. This vocahulaty vepresents tho^ same 
with the Botocudo specimens of Balbo iu the ‘ Atlas Ethnographique. 1 ho 
are mlKcItaDeous, and the language is by no means isolated. 
On Mmc Tumali words JWmii Dr. Tutschek's Vocabulary, 
(. By R. G. Latham, M.D. 
words with which Dr. Tutschek favoured me, twenty were compared 
“ehordofan vocabularies of Ruppell. Of these twenty the following ten oc- 
