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Rh will serve as a useful co-ordinating adjunct to the problem of the ethnologist and the anthropologist working in a similar direction so that we might in time see that “Through the ages One increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened With the process of the suns.' This problem of the relationship of the South Indian languages and their ultimate affiliation was for the first time tackled by Dr. Caldwell. His attempt was the first of its kind in the field of Indian languages. This was followed after some time by Mr. Beames and later by Dr. Hoernle for the modern Aryan languages. Their work was further extended by the studies of European scholars and has received wide attention, but Dr. Caldwell's speculation bus remained where he had left it. No one, except perhaps Dr. Grierson in his short monograph in the Linguistic Survey of