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Among the learned societies and institutions represented by delegates may be men- 

 tioned tlie Royal Asiatic Society, the Society of Biblical Archaeology, the Palestine 

 Exploration Fund, the India Office of London, the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the 

 Soci6t6 Asiatique of Paris, the German Oriental Society, the Vatican Library, the 

 Royal Academies of Rome, Turin, Munich, Pesth, etc. 



In accordance with the statement in the programme that the patron and honorary 

 president of the congress would be pleased to accept such works as would be depos- 

 ited for presentation to His Majesty, scholars and institutions all over the world 

 offered more than .3,000 valuable works and serials covering the entire range of orien- 

 tal studies. 



The following works were presented by American institutions and scholars : 



1. American Mission Press and American Bible Society, Beirut, Syria. About 50 

 Arabic publications. (See Liste des auvrages offerts, p. 19. ) 



2. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 



a. The American Journal of Philology, volumes i-ix, Baltimore, 1878-'89. 

 h. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, volumes i-viii, Baltimore, 1878-'89. 



c. The Williams Manuscript. Reproduction in phototype of 17 pages of a Syriac 

 MS. containing the Epistles known as " Antilegomena," Baltimore, 18'"6. 



d. Contributions to Assyriology and Comparative Semitic Philology, edited by 

 Friedrich Delitzsch and Paul Haupt, with the cooperation of the Johns Hojikins 

 University, Baltimore, Maryland, volume i, part 1, Leipsic, 1889. 



3. The Smithsonian Institution on behalf of the U. S. National Musenm: 

 Assyrian and Babylonian seals, facsimiles and flat impressions, illustrating the 



method after which the smaller Assyro-Babylonlan objects preserved in private Amer- 

 ican collections are reproduced for the study collection at the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. 



Owing to a mistake of the European Express Company the bos containing these 

 objects did not arrive in time to be presented to the king at the general meeting of 

 the congress in Stockholm. At the request of the Smithsonian delegate the United 

 States minister to Sweden and Norway, Gen. W. W. Thomas, submitted the presents 

 to King Oscar at a special audience. The expression of interest by the king on that 

 occasion was conveyed in a letter of General Thomas herewith subjoined : 



United States Leg.^tiox, 



Stockholm, Novemher 12. 1889, 

 Prof. Paul Haupt : 



My Dear Sir: Your note from on board the steamer was duly received, and some 

 time after the box came to hand. 



I might at once have sent the box through the usual official channels to the king, 

 but on opening it I found its contents of such value, and so neatly and orderly ar- 

 ranged and classified that I desired to make sure that His Majesty should see this 

 model gift of the Smithsonian. 



The opportunity desired has occurred. 



I to-day had an audience of the King. 



I took the box with me and had it carried into the audience chamber. In the ante 

 room I unpacked and took out the inner box, and also unpacked some of the little 

 boxes and the ancient seals contained therein. His Majesty himself took up the fine 

 inner box or tray, containing all the small boxes, placed it on his writing desk, read 

 the large general inscription in gold letters on black ground, and examined carefully 

 several of the Assyrian seals and casts, and expressed his admiration at the beauty and 

 clearness of the seals and the skill and method of the arrangement. 



The King said he should take time at his leisure to look over the seals more thor- 

 oughly, and would then decide where to place the tray. His Majesty also desired me 

 to express his thanks to the Smithsonian Institution for this beautiful and useful gift- 

 as well as his appreciation of the method and skill displayed in the cases and general 

 arrangement. 



