Address to the Ethnological Society of London, delivered at the anniversary meeting on the 27th May, 1853 / by Sir B.C. Brodie ; followed by a sketch of the recent progress of ethnology, by Richard Cull.

  • Brodie, Benjamin, Sir, 1783-1862.
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[1853]
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    with the Bodo or Dhimal.” He is now studying the mutual rela- tionship of these hill tribes. Mr. Logan, another of our Fellows, continues his scientific researches in the Indian Archipelago. He and his band of con- .tributors record the result of their investigations in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. - Residing in that distant part of the world, they devote their energies to the study of its nature. Mr. Logan’s contributions to its Ethnology are of the highest character. His papers on the languages of the Indo- Pacific islands place him in the foremost rank of ethnological philologists, and give us more precise ideas of the migrations which led to populating those islands. Mr. Logan is animated by an intense desire of knowledge, with an untiring zeal in its pursuit, and aims at the high object of exhausting his subject. In a letter which I lately received from him, speaking of the Polynesian languages he says: “I think you will find that I have pretty well exhausted our present linguistic data in my forthcoming chapters, and thrown new light on the Polynesians; but we require more facts, for Micronesia and Papuanesia, before we can go farther. In my next chapters I take each geographical group separately (e.cj. Sumatra and its islets, Java and its islets, Borneo and its islets, and so on to Polynesia).” .... “Within the Iasi six weeks (January 6, 1853) I have received vocabularies of several new Borneon and Moluccan languages.” I am anxiously waiting for the continuation of Mr. Logan’s chapters on these languages, for he has already thrown a flood of light on the Ethnology of the Malays and the Polynesians. A valuable contribution to our knowledge of Budhism in Burmah is made by the Rev. P. Bigandet, in a translation from a Burmese MS. of a legend of the Burmese Budha, called “ Gaudama.” The MS. was brought from Ava, which is a great seat of Budhist learning. The original text was in the Pali, from which it had been translated into the Burmese language. O O Another contribution to our knowledge of Budhism, as it exists in Camboja, entitled, “Notice of the Religion of the Cambo- jans,” taken from a MS. of M. Miche, Bishop of Dansara, also appears in Vol. VI. of Mr. Login's Journal. “Whoever has b 2