96 hdernational Gougress of Orientalists, Paris. [JoLY, 



Tlie following is a rough draft of tbe programme of tlie proceedings 

 of tlie Eleventh Meeting of the International Congress of Orientalists 

 to be held at Paris from the 5th to tbe 12th September, 1897 : — 



ELEVENTH MEETING 



OF THE 



INTEEMTIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS. 



PARIS, 5th-12th SEPTEMBER, 1897. 

 Sir, 



The Oriental Scholars wlio assembled at Geneva in September, 

 1894, unanimously decided that the next Congress should be held at 

 Paris, during the year 18V*7. 



The French Orientalists have now completed the preliminary 

 arrangements for cariying on the impetus otigiually received some twenty 

 years ago by Oriental Philology, History and Archajology. The date 

 of the ensuing Congress has been fixed, the various sections have been 

 constituted, and the rough draft of the programme of the proceedings 

 which they propose to adopt, after obtaining the consent of their 

 Colleagues in Europe, America, and the East, has been prepared. 



Our Colleagues have decided to arrange for the Congress to last 

 from the 5th to the 12fch September, 1897, and you will find in the 

 appended prospectus, the list of the sections, in which it will give them 

 great pleasure to see every scholar to whom this invitation may bo 

 addressed inscribe his name, 



I have, &c., 



Charles Schefer, 

 Paris, May , 1896. President. 



A subsequent notice will issiie showing the concessions which will be granted 

 to Oriental Scholars by the various llailway Companies, and also the programme 

 for each day of their stay iu Paris. 



Mr. Ernest Leuoux, has been appointed Treasurer and Publisher of the 

 Congress. 



It has baen decided that the subscription shall be twenty Francs (about 

 sixteen shillings and eight pence, say Kupees fifteen.) 



INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OP ORIENTALISTS. 



XIth Session, — Paris, Septembre, 1897. 



Protector of the Congress. 



M. Le PKlfiSIDENT DE LA R^PDBLIQUE. 



