Oriental Research Institute as a part of which scheme, I feel the honour to talk to you this evening. I may be permitted to say in passing that the work turned out in the Institute can only bear fruit or attain tangible results if it is properly directed and coordinated, instead of being left to the option of the individuals who happen to form members of the Institute. I do not wish to be misunderstood, but only wish to emphasize the fact that we have to pool all our efforts in a particular direction not only the efforts of the members of the Institute: but also of those who are working outside it:
It may be pertinent, here, to refer to Dravidian philological activity, such as it is, since the time of Caldwell. Prof. Seshagiri Sastri did some work in this field, but his conclusions now only form curios in the philological museum. There was, afterwards, an attempt made by Mr.
