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THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY

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1823-1023.

NOTABLE CENTENARY.

From Sir William Jones be passed to Henry Thomas Colebrooke, his successor, as president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal who, on his return to England, was This is à memorable year in the annab with Sir George Staunton, the founder of of the Rögül Asiatic Society, the youngest | the Royal Asiatic Society a century ago. and yet virile to-day of all the Institu- Abimated by the sama scholarly spirit as tions with similar objects" throughout the|Sir-William-Jones-and-his-friend-Pro- civilised world, Mr. Frederick E. Pargiter fanser. Hernce Wilson, Colebrooke had some- in his "Centenary volume of the Royal how found time, during a laborious and Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ins distinguished career in India as Judge and land." just published, furnishes us with | administrator, to produce a Sanskrit gram. na exceedingly interesting history of this inar, a digest of Hindu jurisprudence useful Institution. Of its formation in frun Sanskrit originals, the first authentic 1893. by a group of eminent Orientalists at account of the Vedas, together, with, dis the head of whom was the great Sanskrit cussions of Indian astronomy and hus- scholar Henry Thomas Colebrooke, pf its bander, and investigations into Hindu modest beginnings, its earnest endeavours philosophy and metres, and the Jain and

enlist the sympathies of Oriental Buddhist religions, scholars throughout the world and its

Just as Colebrooku had been moved by vicissitudes during the fateful years com- his Indian environment to become an In mencing in 1830 and continuing till 1876 dianist so the other co-founder of this when the Society reached its lowest ebb society. Sir George Staunton (who learned with only about 140 paying members, Chinese, as a boy on his voyage to China With the appointment of Mr. Vaux ds with Lord Mucartney's Mision to the secretary in 1977, however.

ver, the affairs of Emperor), bail been, led by official residence the Society took a turn for the better until in Canton to produce the first English now it has a membership of 971, of which translation of a Chinese book and så to it is gratifying to note, 400 are Indians.

opru up the virgin field of Chinese litern- The Society celebrated its centenary last ture and China's ancient civilisation. month by the holding of sectional meet Jit 24 the Society's founders began as ing, visit to the School of Oriental practical men and grew into scholars, so, Studies, a reception by the Lord Mayor, a ton, in founding this society, they did not visit to the Laiversity of Oxford, a exclude from the objects they t before reception of the British and Foreign Bible themselves practical matters relating to Society, a conversazione, and a conciuiling commerce and the arts, Very wisely the banquet at the Hotel Ceil

infant society soon abandoned material The inaugurel reption was hold in the object to others, finding abundant, and rooms of the Royal Society at Burlingtonnperabundant, interests for its members in Homise. At the clave of the mourning's pro- the vast fields of Eastern scholarship. ceetings My Prince of Wales arrived, What was true of these great Indianists accompanied by the Prime Minister. The he had mentioned was true also of that Count of Stafford and Lord Colebrooke Indian soldier and diplomatist, the illus (grand-children of Henry Thoras Cole tricus decipherer of cuneiform, Sir Henry brook, who, with Sir George. Staunton, Rawlinson. It was with pride that the founded the society in 1823) were present- Royal Asiatic Society could point to those ed to his chairs and at once addressed the volumes of its journal in which were ori- large and distinguished audience of ginally published the pioneer discoveries scientists from all parts of the world.

of its honoured director and president of later days.

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The Prince of Wales said:Although lay no claim to be an Oriental scholar my- self, I may claim to have travelled widely

Among the many sigmficant develop- ments of the Society's research in the last East from Egypt to forty years he took the work of Childres in the storiel Japan, through India and Ceylon, the and of Rhys Davis on the Pali language Straits Settlements, and "the gateways of

and on early Buddhism. Both these men, Ching. I can claim the privilge of having too, had begun av Civil servants in Ceylon, seen their cities and of having sought to

and had there taken up the pioneer work know their mind. Now, there are MANY of Sonof such an experience, all of the sugurieufnely the late Professor Rb

Turnor, To these two men, gestive but widely differing in what they Davis, they need it that the Buddhist Ruggest. The question, therefore, which Canon, with other texts, he been edited asked myself before coming here today was what particular aspect I should select in addressing this leathed gathering of Oributalists upon the secasion of this cen

tepnry,

in the original Pali, and that there hat incidentally accrued a notablo increase in our knowledge of the social, political, and religions conditions prevailing in the valky before the Christian era. of the Ganges some four or five centuries

Here I was helped by the timely appear ange of the centenary volume of the society. While I do rot propose to range in detail East, meant to their society's founders In pruotion, a century ago the ancient over the facts and findings of this useful little beyond India; and India for them volume-a copy of which will be presented and for European scholars had been di to the representatives here. of other

He societies have been fortified by its recordered barely forty years before.

always thought that, sites the rediscovery in views which have been bors own obser of Grint literature by the happy scholars by own experiences and vations of the Eastern world is the course of the Renaissance, ne scholars had been so

of of my travels. Those views of mine I happy as were Sir William Jones, Henrs Themas Calebrooke, and Horace Hayman reserve for the moment, inviting first your Wilson. attention to some Halient facts that emerge from survey of the Royal Asiatic Society's activities during the past but dred years

It has been a century extraordinarily fruitful of results in many departments of Oriental discovery. To scholars of the last century we of to-day owe an immens researches with

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their ability and industry could touch They were first in navirgin field; nothing that did not prove a discovery, in the intellectual world they resembled these American pioneers of the last century whose steps led them, perforce, to open up new territories,

tion in 1523. The comity of nations pow Much had been gained since the founda-

debt for the illuminati genius have included Chirs and Japan, Persia, Siam i which their industry richel our understanding of those far dis and Afghanistan-whose representatives tant centuries of Asia's history in which were with them that day: India had long the civilisation of mankind takes its rise. ceased to be the sole quarry of the Orien Our debt is to scholars of all lands alike, Egypt, the uniform inscriptions of Baby ike, talist: Jend, Pablavi, the heiroglypluis of to all those who have added to the common lonin and Hittite records, the Akkadian stock, and have pushed forward the intel- and much else of early Babylonia were, the lectual boundaries of Oriental knowledge, Jay all embrace in the growing unbit of But today, in celebrating the centenary of the Lintic studies of 1921. But with the the Royal Asiatic Society, I necessarily widening range of Oriental scholarship confine myself to the society's retrospect there had necessarily followed the growing ant to its particular evidences of achieve specialisation of the Oriental scholar. Lu ments and helpfulaess

If you follow the series of uanies which of human knowledge humane or physical. Oriental studies, as in every department occur in a survey of the Royal Asiatic specialisation was the price of ly Society's activities during the past 100 Today no individual, however gifted, how- years, you cannat but be struck--as I. 500; ever industrious could profus to be a have been struck--by the predominant part which our pube servants in the East have master in nl Oriental research alike and played in scholarly contributions of Orient the future IF. in scholarship a

be was entirely mistaken in his outlook of in the tal research Such names as those of William Jones, for many years a judge industrialism and in modern agriculture

learned professions, and as in moderu in Calcutta; of Henry Thomas Colebrooke future progress did not exnet frera its one of our two founders; of his friend and voteries the personal tribute of RB collaboratir, Sir George Staunton; of austerely intensive culture. James Prinsep and George Turnour; of that fine Indian soldier and diplomatist, Sir Henry Rawlinson-such names us these,

Sir

and many others like them, all go to prove that n

a busy man will always find time to do that on which his heart is set.

While I deliberately refrain from nam. ing living instances. I could pot fail in my Eastern journeys to "note, and I to note with lively satisfaction, that the old spirit of Oriental research is far from dend. In

ivance,

The Empire Theatre in Leicester. square, together with the Queen's Hotel and the plot of land at the back, has been sold. The name of the purchaser has not transpired, but the price is stated to he 370.000. The whole of the property was offered for sale by auction in July last, The nistration work, men in the East n bentre itself was then offered as a separate"";

of the increasingly exacting claims of but was withdrawn at £325,000. today still find time in approach their lot and withdrawn at £215,000. work in that old scholarly spirit of which they are the heirs; and it was borno in on me that rightly viewed, this scholarly spirit was in itself a manifestation of the loftiest conceptions of public service. For rightly to serve is rightly to understand

se among whom service is passed.. conclude, ladies and gentlemen, by "exe pressing to you my confident hope and be

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