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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



If arraiiijod acconliiifj; to tlm mniiber of 



1 Swo.l.Mi 142 



'2. KiiKlaiid «4 



;?, (Jormany ^0 



4. Norway 62 



r>. Italy 48 



(i. Kraiicci 41 



7. Hollanil '-^^ 



8. America -Ji' 



[). Austria 3G 



10. Turkey 5i8 



11. Russia 26 



12. Denmark 19 



i:?. Finland 13 



14. India H 



If arranged according to the number of 



142 



()0 



58 



25 



19 



18 



18 



17 



15 



11 



9 



6 



1. Sweden.... 



2. (Jemiany .. 



3. England... 



4. Anstria 



5. Fr.ance 



(). Denmark.. 



7. Russia 



8. Holland ... 

 1). America . . . 



10. Finland ... 



11. Italy 



12. Norway (?). 



13. Turkey 



14. India 



subscribers the list would be as follows: 



15. Switzerland 



ir.. Egypt 



17. Persia 



18. Portugal 



11>. Belgium 



20. Japan 



21. Spain 



22. Siam 



23. Greece 



24. Abyssinia 



25. Brazil 



26. Colombia 



27. Servia 



28. Roumania 



members present the order would be : 



15. Persia 



16. Egypt 



17. Portugal 



18. Switzerland 



I 19. Japan 



20. Greece 



21. Belgium 



! 22. Siam 



! 23. Abyssinia 



[ 24. Brazil 



25. Colombia 



26. Servia 



27. Ronmauia 



28. Spain 



Con)paring these tigures with those of the preceding Oriental congresses it would 

 seem that there is an increase of devotion to Oriental studies among European schol- 

 ars. At the Seventh Congress, held at Vienna in 1886, there were 414 subscribers 

 and 228 members present; at the Sixth Congress, held at Leyden in 1883, there were 

 453 subscribers and 219 members present ; at the Fifth Congress, held at Berlin in 

 18H1, there were 296 sub.scribers and 189 members present. 



The following tabh; indicates the number of subscribers and members present at 

 each of the eight international congresses of Orientalists: 



1. Paris (1873) 



2. London (1874) 



3. St. Petersburg ( 1876) . . 



4. Florence (1878) 



5. Berlin (1881) 



6. Leyden (1883).... 



7. Vienna (1886).... 



8. Stockholm (1889). 



Subscri- 

 bers. 



1,296 

 1 , 4.53 

 1.414 

 1,710 



Pres- 

 ent. 



189 

 219 

 228 

 493 



* Eighty-nine /orei^yn members attended. 



tNot recorded. 



The increased interest is oven more marked on the part of Americans. To the 

 Vienna congress there were eleven American subscribers of whom live (Briggs, Le- 

 l;ind, S. A. Smiih, Thatcher, and Whitehouse) were i)resent. To tlie Stockholm 

 congress there were forty American subscribers, of whom sixteen were present. A 

 list of the American subscribers is herewith subjoined: 



