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September next, and soliciting the support and presence of members of the 

 Asiatic Society, and read tbe following extracts from the programme : 



" The Eussian Committee of organisation, acting in concert with the 

 Permanent Committee of the 2nd Session in London have drawn tip the 

 following regulations for the ensuing Session. 



"1. The International Congress of Orientalists will re-assemble for its 

 8rd meeting at St. Petersbm-gh on the 1st September, 1876. The meeting 

 will last for 10 days. 



" 2. The meeting will be chiefly devoted to subjects relating to Asiatic 

 Russia. The subjects will be discussed in four sittings, the first of which 

 will be taken up by Siberia (eastern and western), the second by Central Asia 

 within Russian boundaries (comprising also the independent principalities 

 of Ouzbekistan) ; the third by the Caucasus (with the Crimea and other 

 countries in Eiu'opean Russia inhabited by an Asiatic population) ; the 

 fourth by Trans-Caucasia (formerly Georgia and Armenia). 



" 3. At the three following sittings the Congress will consider the rest 

 of Asia, divided into three groups : 1, Eastern Tm-kistan, Tibet, Mongolia, 

 with Mantchouria and the Corea, China Proper and Japan. 2. India, Cis- 

 and Trans-Gangetic, Afghanistan, Persian and the Indo-Chinese Ai'chi- 

 pelago ; 3. Turkey, including Arabia and Egypt. 



" 4. The subjects which will be considered in these seven sittings will 

 comprise the Cartography, Ethnography, Language, History and Literatm-e 

 of the respective coxmtries. 



" 5. The two last sittings wiU be devoted to questions relating 1, to the 

 Archaeology and Numismatics of the Eastern peoples generally, and 2, to 

 their Religioiis and Philosophical Systems. 



" 16. A summary of all the papers and communications brought before 

 the meeting in the Russian language, as well as of the discussions carried 

 on in that language, will be published in the Report of the Congress, in 

 French. 



" 17. The Committee will publish a list of the questions to be proposed 

 for discussion at the Congress. Any jDcrson wishing to propose any special 

 questions relating to the East are requested to submit them in writing to 

 the managing Committee, or to one of its corresponding members, accom- 

 panied by an abstract stating their opinions on these questions. It is only 

 on this condition that the latter can be admitted for discussion. 



" 18. The International Congress of Orientalists at its 3rd meeting will 

 only consider subjects of purely scientific hiterest ; consequently any com- 

 munication or discussion on subjects bearing on the Christian religion or con- 

 temporaneous politics, administration, commerce and industry or wliich may 

 not be included in the above mentioned in-ograimue of the meeting, will be 

 considered as out of place and at once vetoed by the President of the sitting. 



