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Sessions of FRroAY, October 7, 1921. 



The meeting was called to order at ten o'clock. 



Dr. Nies, President of the American Oriental Society, gave an 

 account of the Society's plans for the establishment of a School of 

 Living Oriental Languages, and of its recent steps for enlarging 

 its resources with a view to more extensive publication of works 

 upon the Orient. 



Professor Pelliot spoke upon Native and Foreign Scholarship 

 in the field of Sinology, with an account of his explorations in 

 Chinese Turkestan from 1906 to 1909, and in particular of the 

 Grottoes of Touen-houang, and of the vast importance of their 

 contents for the future investigation of the history of China. 



Mr. Shuttleworth described a hill-festival in the Western Him- 

 alayas, and illustrated his description with pictures from his col- 

 lections. 



At the close of the formal Sessions, the afternoon hours were left 

 unassigned, in order that the guests might use them for further 

 study of the Egyptian and Japanese Galleries of the Museum, and 

 for other similar visits. 



A farewell gathering was held in the evening, in the iEsculapian 

 Room of the Harvard Club. Here dinner was served, Mr. Lan- 

 man presiding. Brief addresses were made by President Lowell 

 of Harvard, by Dr. Cowley of Oxford, by Professor Pelliot of Paris, 

 by Mr. Burrage of Boston, and by Professor George Foot JNIoore 

 of Harvard. The dominant note of these utterances was that of 

 satisfaction over the opportunity which such meetings offer for 

 personal acquaintance among the workers in these fields, and for 

 mutual sympathy and encouragement. 



