ABSTRACT
At no period were such ample Materials available, and, as stated above, my peculiar relations to Scholars of all Countries and to Missionaries of all Denominations, have enabled me to make use of their aid to the full. I feel that every month’s delay is advantageous, as fresh works drop in, but on the other hand every week’s delay in reducing the collected Materials into the order of a Treatise jeopardizes the work itself, as I fear that my Materials will be of little use to any one else, consisting of the notes made in the perusal of many scores of books arranged in the order of their Languages, their Families and Branches, or their Groups and Sub-Groups, as the case may be.
