90 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Coiij)jratiil;iting tlio SmitliHouiaii and yourself, not only npon this present and ita 



gracious reeojition, but upon the {general exhibit made by the United States at the 



Oriental ConjjresH at Stockhoha in seals and books, and last and best, in men, 



I remain, my dear sir, yours very sincerely, 



W. W. Thomas, Jr. 



The followinjj; works were presented by American Orientalistb : 



1. Thomas (.'iiase, of Providence, Rhode Island : Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery 

 Cambridge, 1883. 



2. E. van Dyck, Cairo: Real property, mortgage, and wakf, according to Ottoman 

 law. 



;5. J. T. Oracey, D D., of Buffalo, New York : 



(I. India by J. T. Gracey, Rochester, New York, 1884 : 



h. The Gulistan of Sa'di, edited in Persian by A. Sprcnger, Calcutta, 1851. 

 •I. Wni. R. Harper, of New Haven, Connecticut : 



a. Elements of Hebrew, tenth ed. 



b. Introductory Hebrew Method Manual, fifth ed. 



c. Hebrew Vocabularies, third ed. 

 W. Elements of Hebrew Syntax. 



c. Hebraica, volumes l-v. 



5. Paul Haupt, of Baltimore, Maryland: 



(I. The Babylonian Nimrod Epic, Leipsic, 1890, 



b. The Cuneilbrm Account of the Deluge, Leipsic, 1881. 



c. A modern fragment of the-old Babylonian Nimrod Epic, containing a legend 

 of Noah and the demon Kater (inscribed day tablet). 



d. Contributions to Assyriology and Comparative Semitic Philology, part 1, 

 Leipsic, 188'J. 



e. On the Semitic Sounds and their Transliteration, Leipsic, 1889. 



6. Henry Hyveruat, of Washington, District of Columbia: 



o. Los actes dcs martyrs de I'Egypte, volume i, Rome, 1887. 

 b. Albnm de paleographie copte. 



7. S. 11. Kellogg, Western Theological Seminary, Alleghany, Pennsylvania: 



a. A Grammar of the Hindi Language. 



b. The Light of Asia and the Light of the World. 



8. Ch. R. Hanman, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Sanscrit Reader, Parts i-iii, 

 Boston, 1X88. 



9. Dr. John Wortahet, Beirut: 



a Elements of Anatomy.* 



b Elements of Physiology.* 



c Temples and Tombs of Thebes.* 

 The Eighth International Congress of Orientalists presented some special features 

 distinguishing it from all its predecessors compared with the previous meetings. 



The Government took an especial interest in the proceedings throughont. King 

 Oscar acted as patron and honorary president opened the congress (in the great es- 

 cutcheon hall of Riddarhuset, the palace of the Swedish nobility, in Stockholm) 

 with a happily worded French address; closed it with an admirably expressed Latin 

 oration; was in the chair at thi^ general meeting of all the sections, and attended one 

 of the meetings of the Semitic section 1/* for cuneiform research. t At Christiania the 



* In Arabic. 



t The Congress was organized in five sections; the first of which was divided into 

 two sub-sections. 



1. Semitic and Islam. 2. Aryan. 



a Languages and literatures of Islam. :?. African, including Egyptology. 

 b Semitic languages, other than 4. Central Asia and the Far East. 

 Arabic ; cuneiform texts and in- r>. Malay and Polynesia, 

 scriptious, etc. 



