Appendix vii. 



REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS. 



Prof. S. P. Langley, 



Washington, D. C. : 



Sir: In accordance -with yonr instrnction I attended the Eighth International 

 Congress of Orientalists as delegate of the Smithsonian Institution. The meetings of 

 the congress were held in Stockholm and Christiania, under the auspices of His 

 Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, from September 1 to September 12, 18s9. 

 The members assembled in Stockholm on September 1 and adjourned on September 

 7 to meet in Christiania from September 8 to September 11. September 12 was spent 

 in Giitheburg, where a farewell reception was given. 



Five general meetings were held and the various sections met daily for the trans- 

 action of business. 



There were registered as subscribers to the congress 710 names (201 Scandinavians 

 and 506 foreigners); more than one-half of the (286) foreign members were present. 

 The foreign members came from twenty-eight different countries, as indicated in the 

 following table : 



* In the London Academy of November 1, 1890, it is stated that the congress was 

 attended by 459 Europeans, 16 Americans, 13 Asiatic, and 5 African scholars. This 

 calculation is evidently bas(Ml on the supposition that the Swedish and Norwegian 

 subscribers were all present. 



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