Address to the Ethnological Society of London, delivered at the anniversary meeting on the 27th May, 1853 / by Sir B.C. Brodie ; followed by a sketch of the recent progress of ethnology, by Richard Cull.

  • Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
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[1853]
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    AFRICA. The recent progress of African discovery so amply repays the labour bestowed on it, as to satisfy the desires of the most ardent. Some account in an agreeable though desultory form of the scientific labours of the Prussian mission to Egypt and Nubia under Dr. Richard Lepsius, has appeared in an English dress, Linder the title “Discoveries in Egypt, Nubia, and the Peninsula )f Sinai, in the years 1842—1845, during the mission sent out oy His Majesty Frederick William IV. of Prussia, by Dr. Richard [Lepsius.” These letters, on their arrival in Europe, appeared in various [journals, chiefly in the Preussiche Stoatszeitung, and thence were opied by other papers. The collected letters, therefore, although nly now published, are not new to us; and some of the lingual uestions connected with Ethnology were discussed in our Society long as six years ago. The letters are edited by K. R. H. ackenzie, Esq., who appears to be well acquainted with the thnology of North-East Africa. Much valuable information concerning the tribes in the interior f Africa around Lake Tsad has been collected by the enterprising ravellers Drs. Barth, Overweg, and Mr. Richardson, which is at resent in the Foreign Office, but which the Foreign Secretary has indly promised to lay before our Society. Dr. Daniel], a Fellow of our Society, and distinguished by his ' thnological researches in Africa, safely arrived at Macartney’s sland, on the Gambia, in November last. He informs me that e is now in the midst of an unwrought Ethnological field, and vhich he hopes to turn to good account. I trust his life will be reserved to pursue those researches for which he is so well ualified, and that he will return to us in robust health to enjoy he otium cum dignitate after his long and laborious sojourn in he pestilent marshes of the west coast of Africa. The publication of a second edition of the Rev. Samuel Crowther’s Yoruba Vocabulary, now greatly extended, and also a Grammar of the language by the same, a native author, supplies us with ample materials for the study of that beautiful language: while the able introduction by the Bishop of Sierra Leone is a valuable contribution to African philology.