90 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Cougratulating the Smitbsouian and yourself, uot only upon this present and its 

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

 Oriental Congress at Stockholm in seals and books, and last and best, in vuew, 

 I remain, my dear sir, yours very sincerely, 



W. W. Thomas, Jr. 



The following works were presented by American Orientalistb : 



1. Thomas Chase, 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. 



'3. J. T. Gracey, D D., of Buffalo, New York : 



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



h. The Gulistiin of Sa'di, edited in Persian by A. Sprenger, Calcutta, 1851. 



4. Wm. R. Harper, of New Haven, Connecticut : 



a. Elements of Hebrew, tenth ed. 



b. Introductory Hebrew Method Manual, fifth ed. 



c. Hebrew Vocabularies, third ed. 



d. Elements of Hebrew Syntax. 

 c. Ilebraica, volumes i-v. 



5. Paul Haupt, of Baltimore, Maryland: 



a. The Babylonian Nimrod Epic, Leipsic, 1890, 



h. The Cuneiform 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. Coutributions to Assyriology and Comiiarative Semitic Philology, part 1, 

 Leipsic, 1889. 



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



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



a. Les actes des martyrs de I'figypte, volume i, Rome, 1887. 



b. Album de paleographie copte. 



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



a. A Grammar of tho Hindi Language. 



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



8. Ch. R. Hauman, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Sanscrit Reader, Parts i-iir, 

 Boston, 1888. 



9. Dr. John Wortabet, 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 throughout. King 

 Oscar acted as patron aud 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 the general meeting of all tho sections, and attended one 

 of the meetings of the Semitic section lb for cuneiform research.! At Cbristiania the 



* In Arabic. 



t The Congress was organized in iive sections; tho first of which was divided into 

 two snb-sections. 



1. Semitic and Islam. 2. Aryan. 



a Languages and literatures of Islam. 3. African, includiag Egyptology. 

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

 Arabic ; cuneiform texts and in- f). Malay and Polynesia, 

 scriptious, etc. 



