F10195_0107

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
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The anniversary meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society
was held at 22, Albemarle-street, yesterday. Lord
REAY, who presided, referred to the Peace Conference at
The Hague, at which he was associated with Sir Ernest
Satow. On the foundation which they then laid there
was recently built the additional edifice of the Naval
Conference which had passed several resolultions as a
result of the prepatory work done at the Peace
Conference. He regretted however, that the Naval Conference
did not take place before the Peace Conference.
He congratulated Dr. Grierson on having been presented
by the Prince of Wales with the Triennial Gold Medal of
the Society this year for services to Oriental scholarship,
and announced that Lord Curzon would shortly present
the Society's Public School Gold Medal to Mr. A. H. M.
Wedderburn, of Eton, for an essay. Referring to the
deputation which recently waited on the President of the
Board of Education with regard to the Indian Museum,
Lord Reay said he believed the speeches of Lord Curzon
and others must have convinced Mr. Runciman and the
officials present of the immense importance attaching to
the separate existence of the Indian Museum. It would be
little less than a scandal if an inquirer asked for the
Indian collection and had to be told that it had been
scattered. Unless that colleciton were maintained as a
separate one it would not attract gifts from Indian
Princes and other rich natives. He hoped the valuable
collection of Dr. Stein would find a place there.

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
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The anniversary meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society
was held at 22, Albemarle-street, yesterday. Lord
REAY, who presided, referred to the Peace Conference at
The Hague, at which he was associated with Sir Ernest
Satow. On the foundation which they then laid there
was recently built the additional edifice of the Naval
Conference which had passed several resolultions as a
result of the prepatory work done at the Peace
Conference. He regretted however, that the Naval Conference
did not take place before the Peace Conference.
He congratulated Dr. Grierson on having been presented
by the Prince of Wales with the Triennial Gold Medal of
the Society this year for services to Oriental scholarship,
and announced that Lord Curzon would shortly present
the Society's Public School Gold Medal to Mr. A.H.M.
Wedderburn, of Eton, for an essay. Referring to the
deputation which recently waited on the President of the
Board of Education with regard to the Indian Museum,
Lord Reay said he believed the speeches of Lord Curzon
and others must have convinced Mr. Runciman and the
officials present of the immense importance attaching to
the separate existence of the Indian Museum. It would be
little less than a scandal if an inquirer asked for the
Indian collection and had to be told that it had been
scattered. Unless that colleciton were maintained as a
separate one it would not attract gifts from Indian
Princes and other rich natives. He hoped the valuable
collection of Dr. Stein would find a place there.