original seat of the Aryans, [238].

the Aryan and Semitic the only families of speech deserving that title, [282].

genealogical table, [394], [395].

Asia Minor, origin of the Turks of, [306].

Asiatic Society, foundation of the, at Calcutta, [158].

Aśoka, King, his rock inscriptions, [146].

Assyria, various forms of the name, [247].

Astrology, causes of the extinction of the science, [19].

Astronomy, origin of the word, [16].

the Ptolemæan system, although wrong, important to science, [26].