28 JANUARY 1854, Page 9
The Times of this morning reports a meeting held on
Wednesday, at the house of the Chevalier Bunsen, including Sir John Herschel, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Professor Owen and representatives of most of the Missionary, Asiatic, and Ethnological Owen, for the purpose of considering whether they could devise a uniform system of expressing foreign alphabets by Ro- man characters. The conference was further adjourned.