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Hamburg, beg to express their thanks to His Excellency the Viceroy 

 and the Government of India for the great encouragement they have 

 extended to Oriental learning and research, by granting to Dr. M. A. 

 Stein the necessary leisure and means for the prosecution of his recent 

 explorations in Eastern Turkestan. The thanks of the Xlllth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Orientalists are equally to be conveyed to Mr. G. 

 Macartney, C.I.E., the political representative of the Government of 

 India at Kashgar, and to the Mandarins Pan-Darin and Khan Daloi, of 

 the Provincial Government of Chinese Turkestan, for the very effective 

 help they had given to Dr. Stein in the course of his archaeological and 

 geographical explorations about Khotan, as well as to Mr. Petrovsky, 

 the Imperial Consul-General of Russia at Kashgar, for the valuable 

 assistance rendered by him towards the safe transport of Dr. Stein's 

 collection of antiquities, from Turkestan to Europe. They desire at the 

 same time to express their appreciation of the highly important results 

 which have rewarded the labours of the scholar selected by the Govern- 

 ment of India, and which represent an ample return for the outlay incur- 

 red, owing to the practical nature of the operations conducted by him. 

 They would also venture to express the hope that facilities will be given 

 to him for completing the publication and elaboration of the results ob- 

 tained, and that the Government will be pleased to sanction any neces- 

 sary extension for this purpose of Dr. Stein's present deputation. 

 Finally, they venture to express the hope, that when circumstances per- 

 mit, the interest of archaeological research will be allowed to benefit 

 by Dr. Stein's special experience and previous knowledge, which are 

 likely to facilitate considerably the further explorations which it is 

 desirable should be entrusted to him in the interests of India. 



No. 5. (Translation). The Xlllth International Congress of Orien- 

 talists is requested to nominate afresh the committee appointed in Rome 

 to promote the establishment of the " India Exploration Fund," and to 

 instruct it to report to the next Congress the results of the action taken 

 by it. 



Agreed to on the 10th September, 1902. 



No. 6. The Indian Section of the Xlllth Congress of Orientalists at 

 Hamburg has received, with the greatest satisfaction, the report on the 

 progress of the proposed " Manual of Indo- Aryan Bibliography," edited 

 by Professor E. Kuhn and Professor L. Scherman, laid before the Sec- 

 tion by Professor Kuhn. 



The Section wishes to convey their best thanks to the Government of 

 India for the subvention of this undertaking, so important for Indian 

 studies, and recommends it to the support of learned Societies. 



No. 8. Read a report on the resolutions of the committee appointed 



