460 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



October 5 and 6 and 7, 1921. — Special Meeting of 



Orientalists. 



A Special Meeting was held at the House of the Academy, 

 beginning on Wednesday morning, the 5th of October, at ten 

 o'clock, when the Academy received the Delegates from the 

 Societe Asiatiqiie of Paris and the Royal Asiatic Society of Lon- 

 don, deputed to confer with the members of Class III of the 

 Academy upon matters concerning the promotion of Oriental 

 studies. 



A series of joint meetings of Orientalists was begun at London 

 in 1919, and continued at Paris in 1920. This meeting of 1921 was 

 held as a continuation of that series. In July, 1922, the French 

 Society will celebrate the centenary of its foundation, and in 1923 

 the British Society will follow suit. Not until 1924 would another 

 opportunity recur for holding such a meeting in America. 



Accordingly, pursuant to a vote of the Council of the American 

 Academy, an invitation was sent on April 13, 1921 to the Societe 

 Asiatique, the -Royal Asiatic Society, and the Societa Asiatica 

 Italiana, to meet with the members of Class III of the Academy, on 

 the 24th of June, 1921, or at such later time as might appear more 

 convenient, and at the House of the Academy, in the city of Boston. 



The invitation was authorized by the Council of the Academy 

 at the instance of several gentlemen, — Americans, Orientalists, 

 friends of the Orient and of Oriental learning, — whose names 

 follow : Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, of Boston ; Professor James 

 H. Breasted, of the University of Chicago; Mr. Charles Dana 

 Burrage, of Boston; Professors Albert T. Clay and Charles C. 

 Torrey, of Yale University; Dr. Arthur Fairbanks, of the Museum 

 of Fine Arts, Boston; Professors James R. Jewett, Charles R. 

 Lanman, George Foot Moore, and James H. Woods, of Harvard 

 University; Professor Duncan B. Macdonald, of Hartford Theo- 

 logical Seminary. 



The invitation was most cordially and promptly accepted, — on 

 behalf of the French Society, by its President, Mr. Emile Senart, 

 Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres of the 

 Institute of France, and on behalf of the English Society, by its 



