arii OBITUARY NOTICES. 



He read occasional papers before the Archaeological Institute of 

 America ; and he was also a member of the Board of Editors of Art 

 and Archaeology, published under the auspices of that Society. For 

 years he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Managing 

 Committee of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusa- 

 lem, and was also a member of the Committee on the Mesopotamian 

 School. He took part last spring in the work of incorporating the 

 schools, which proved one of his last acts for the advancement of 

 Oriental research. He was regarded a valued and representative 

 member of the Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia ; and also took 

 an active part in the Contemporary Club, the Pennsylvania Library 

 Club, and the Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia. 



By the f ruitfulness of his investigations and his manifold contribu- 

 tions Jastrow has indelibly impressed his name upon Oriental re- 

 search. His first contribution to Semitics was his dissertation on 

 the grammatical treatise of Abu Zakarijja Jaha ben Dawiid Hajjiig. 

 which was published in 1885. In his large bibliography, besides this 

 work four other contributions in Arabic are found. While Arabic 

 never ceased to be attractive to him, and he had even planned to be 

 in Egypt at this time for the express purpose of devoting himself to 

 modern Arabic, he early appreciated the fact that for the Biblical 

 field, in which he was especially interested, greater opportunities for 

 research were to be found in the study of Assyrian, Hebrew, and 

 Aramaic. 



Jastrow's first contribution in Assyrian was in 1887. on a " Pas- 

 sage in the Cylinder Inscription of Asurbanapal," which was pub- 

 lished in the Zcitsclirift fi'ir Assyriologic. His bibliography shows 

 that following this, scarcely a year passed in which one to seven 

 articles were not published on Assyriological subjects alone. In 

 1889 he published an important fragment of an inscribed cylinder of 

 a ruler named Marduk-shapiq-zirim. By a process of elimination 

 and conjecture and on palaeontological grounds he not only deter- 

 mined that this ruler belonged to the Nisin or Pashe dynasty, but in 

 a remarkable manner reasoned that he should be restored to his place 

 as the founder of the dynasty. An inscription in the Yale Collection 

 published thirty years later proved this to be correct. 



