Page 754 - Lokmanya Tilak Samagra (khand 2)

1-()0 SAMAGRA TILAlC -~ 2 • CHALDEAN AND lNDIAN VEDAS
It seemed -to me. tp .be ~spesciaUy. i:rnportant<J~ )listinguish
between the non-Semitic Sumerian, the Semitic Akkadian, and
the Semitic Chaldean, . the t~~ former early, the last-named of
late date. It is also of importance to quote the correct form of
every word treated.
_ I _am sorry to say that I cannot think of the names of any
further British Assyriologists. As to the German Assyriologists,
I no longer know who among them are my friepds, :lMtt ~CI
know which among them may have survived . ~dF'{R~s of
the last five years. Among my French colleagues, h9WRVfru1 ~Jw¥.W.
suggest the following :- . : ~d.t no 1~r!l'f!il
Monsieur Fr. Thureau-Dangin, Musee du Lqu.~fani>·
Monsieur le Prof. V. Scheil, Membre de I'I11st.l-N~t iWrio2
Le Conservateur en chef, Musee Guimet, Pari~·.t~ 1.--. <1:
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Monsieur L. Delapotre, 211, Rue de Paris, Cl~!-in~r~t~-tlfine)
France. ( A real Scholar, and knows it. Full of ssC?.Plic!Mq· with
regard to the work of others, but a good fellow.) Nw~~ding
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'that he is old, and much occupied, you might se.n~ .~-:-f~W dp the
following :- ,;(,·m lln ni
Sir Henry Howorth, K. C. I. E., 45 LeU.atti1G~§,
Kensington, W.
I used to know a Barrister, Mr. Parmeshwar Lall who once
studied Assyrian. He returned to India, however, some years a~Cf,
and I do not know his present address. Notwithstina~ that
yours is a country of exceedingly great extent; you'~Y ~e some
means of finding out something about him. I tliitik:Bihe subject
might interest him ( if, as I suppose, he be still alive ), and it
would not be a bad thing if he found himself able to interest
himself in Assyriology again.
Trustin,g tha~ the enclosed notes will be of use to you,
I am,
Yours faithfully,
THEoPHILUS G. PINCHES
.i,;iiT .1o1q 1a~a
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ENCLOSURE 1 ;, ;;i:) • 1~qaq lUO'(
For the due realization of your thesis, and th~ d~iflJhiH~Cffi'
criticism, it is needful to keep the gentilic norrtiJn: ftffiJee'iriWr'!
distinct. ot {noe ~d! :w