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President, Lord Reay (deceased August 1, 1921), of the British 

 Academy. For the Itahan Society, its President, Professor Pavo- 

 Hni of Florence, wrote that the Ministry held out hopes that the 

 sending of a Delegate might be sanctioned. Unfortunately, these 

 hopes were not realized. 



The French Society's Delegates were: Paul Pelliot, Member of 

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

 France, Professor of Chinese at the College de France; Alexandre 

 Moret, Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes 

 Etudes, Conservator of the Musee Guimet in Paris. 



The Delegates of the English Society were: Dr. Arthur Ernest 

 Cowley, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Librarian of the 

 Bodleian Library; Dr. Stephen Langdon, Professor of Assyriology 

 at Oxford; Herbert ^Yeld-Blundell, Esq., of London (Queen's 

 College, Oxford) ; Mr. Henry Lee Shuttleworth, of Delhi, of the 

 Indian Civil Service. 



Upon the Academy's invitation, the American Oriental Society 

 sent the following Delegates: its President, Reverend James 

 Buchanan Nies, of Brooklyn Heights, New York; Dr. William 

 Sturgis Bigelow, of Boston; Professor James H. Breasted, of the 

 University of Chicago; Charles Dana Burrage, Esq., of Boston; 

 Professor Albert T. Clay and Professor Edward Washburn Hop- 

 kins, of Yale; Professor A. V. Williams Jackson, of Columbia 

 University; Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, of Yale. 



All these were present, except Professor Clay. 



The non-resident Delegates, during their stay, were the guests 

 of The Omar Khayyam Club of America. With two or three 

 exceptions, they were lodged and entertained by the Omar Club 

 at the House of the Harvard Club of Boston. 



The Delegates were received by the following Fellows of the 

 Academy; the President of the Academy, Professor George Foot 

 Moore; his immediate predecessor. Professor Theodore William 

 Richards; the Corresponding Secretary of the Academy, Professor 

 Harry W. Tyler; the Recording Secretary of the Academy, Pro- 

 fessor James Hardy Ropes; President Lowell of Harvard; ]\Ir. 

 John Ellerton Lodge, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Mr. 

 Edward Sylvester Morse, of the Peabody Museum, Salem; Dr. 

 Francis H. Williams, of Boston; Professors James Richard Jewett, 



