462 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Kirsopp Lake, Ephraim Emerton, Charles R. Lanman, David G. 

 Lyon, Clifford Herschel Moore, George Andrew Reisner, and James 

 Haughton Woods, of Harvard. 



Sessions of Wednesday, October 5, 192L 



President Moore opened the sessions by welcoming to the 

 Academy the Delegates of the Oriental Societies, and spoke briefly 

 of the purpose and spirit of the joint meeting. 



Professor Pelliot responded on behalf of the visitors. Moreover, 

 as bearer of an official message to the Academy, he read a letter 

 addressed to President Moore by M. Senart, of the Institute of 

 France, as President of the Societe Asiatique. The letter tells of 

 the satisfaction of the Society at the establishment of relations of 

 sympathy and cooperation with the Academy, and of its hope for 

 long and fruitful maintenance of these relations. In particular, 

 it tells of the proposed celebration in the early days of July, 1922, 

 of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the French 

 Asiatic Society, and expresses the hope that the Academy will 

 take part on that occasion. 



Professor Hopkins, of Yale, in response to a call from the Chair, 

 gave a brief account of the recent progress of American studies in 

 the literature of India. 



Professor Torrey, of Yale, in like manner, spoke of the progress 

 of Semitic studies, with some account of the collections of Semitic 

 antiquities in the Museums at Philadelphia, Yale, Harvard, 

 Princeton, and New York (collection of J. Pierpont Morgan). 



Professor Reisner, of Harvard, reviewed the work of American 

 philologists and archaeologists in the Egyptian field, and mentioned 

 the notable collections of Egyptian antiquities in American 

 Museums. 



Professor Lyon, of Harvard, finally, gave some account of the 

 Harvard Semitic Museum, and of the Harvard Excavations at 

 Samaria. 



The assembled company then proceeded in motor-cars to the 

 Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Director, Dr. Arthur Fair- 

 banks, being detained at home by illness, the visitors were received 



